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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at |http: //books .google .com/I :..W- HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY THE BEQUEST OF EVERT JANSEN WENDELL OF NEW VORK FIRST ATTEMPT TO TAKE THE LtFE OF MS. KICIIARDSON. TJHE g* ElCHAEDSON-M^RLAliD TRAGEDY. CONTAINIKe ALL THE LETTERS AND OTHER INTERESTING FACTS AND DOCUMENTS NOT BEFORE PUBLISHED. BUNe A rCLL AKD lUPAKTIlL niSTORY OF THIS MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE. PHILADELPHIA : -pAIROT.A^ & CO., PUBLISHERS, 610 ABCH STREET, 1810. r" .V HARVARD COILCSK llSRARY FROM / THE BEQUEST Of fVERl iAHSEH WtHOEWl \9U > « ■■ > Entered aooording to Aot of Coofpreu, in the year 1870, bj BARCLAYAOO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the .United Ststei, for the Eastern District of Peanqrhrttria. I* i ; . I ■ THE RICHARDSON-MCFARLAND TRAGEDY. ♦ ^•»» Lots is doabtless a holy and beautiful thing, but in how many eases is it prosti- tuted for the sake ofnumey; how many young and loving hearts are blighted in their early days by some exaoting fa^r or mer- cenary mother, who care nothing for their children's happiness in after life, but simply what advantages will accrue from marrymg a man with money 1 Money, it is justly said, is the root of all evil. In how many cases do we find that it is not the man tlie woman mar- ries, but his money. In how ma^y oases has it brought both men and women to a felon's cell, and even to the gallows. How many wolves in sheep's clothing are there pcowling about our streets, who have more money than decency ready to snap at, to seduce a weak, misguided woman from the paths of virtue, not caring what homes they may desolate, or what hearts they make break. Such men as these, if men they can be called, are not fit to be admitted into decent society, they are a pest and a nuisance, and as such they should be treated with unmitigated scorn and contempt, and the sooner the world is rid of such, the better for the community at large. Which to pity the most we know not, the seduced or the seducer. Perhaps the two greatest failings in a woman, are her love of dress and her love of admiration; not that we wish to speak harshly of the fair sex, but how often does a woman's love, or respect for i^ man (call it what you please), cease immediately when his pocket is empty. Our newspapers of late liave been full of such cases, scarcely if ever do we read of a case of murder, or attempted assassination, but what women or money were at the bottom of it More especially has this been seen in the Bichardson-McFar- land tragedy, in this case it was *' love versus money," ** husband versus paramour." A diamond is a priceless gem, so is the wife to the husband who has nurtured her and cared for her, who has used all his energies to mould to his ideal of what his wife should be, and spent his hard earned fortunes to make her a model mother to his children. Can we wonder that the loss of such a treasure should drive a man to frenzy, more especially when his most intimate acquaintances or so- called friends taunt him ^th his Loss ? Non9 of us are immaculate ; we aU hf^e our pecu- liar passions. McFarland's wife to him was all in all, she was the moUier of his children, the idol of his heart, the very centre of his existence, his whole body and socd wi^re bound up in his wife, he had spent his whole fortuna in developing her latent talent, to enable her to shine m society and be a credit to himself. And how was such love as Uiis repaid ? Did she return his love ? Did she acknowledge her husband's self-denial ? Did she use her talents in the right direction? No, becom- ing an actress she wa? thrown into the society of those whose aim and purpose it is to draw such into the vortex of dissipation. Actresses are, perhaps, more exposed to temptation than any other class of persons ; the public eye is fixed upon them, they wish to stand well in their profession, and how are they to do this ? it must be through the medium of the press. Critics, specially appointed, attend our theatres for the express purpose of descant- ing upon the merits and demerits of th^ actors, these men have the entr6 of the Green Boom, and naturally seek the society of the ladies, who would sooner sacrifice their affections for ambition than be written down in the newst)apers. Such was Mrs. McFarland's case. Mr. McFarland in the largeness of his heart, wishing to see his wife occupy a position in society, spent large suras of money in educating her, being, per- haps, one of the finest readers and elocu- tionists in the United States, he naturally educated her in the art, being an apt scholar she profited by his tuition, \Yhich gave her u taste for the stage, and was thereby thrown considerably in Bichardson's company, from that time McFarland's domestic happiness was at an end. Being a woman of fascinating manners, her society was much sought after, invitations followed each other thick and fast, in all these she was attended by Bichardson, and was thus drawn into the vortex of dis- sipation. We see her accompanied by him to suppers given by a certain class called Free Lovers, whose views upon the.sa^ictity of the marriage vows are extremely lax. A man-s wife in their ideas is any one's wife, they care (19) 20 THE BICHABDSON.M0FABLAMD. TBAQEDY. I little for that sacred rite which was instituted for the preservation of home. A man vs home should be his casket, in which his wife should be his brightest jewel, shedding a lustre upon those who surround it. Free Lover's are a class who should be shunned by any right-thinking person who wishes to preserve their purity and prevent the tongue of scandal being opened upon them. They should shun them as they would a serpent, wheae YBDomoas^angs wou^d fausp theim instant death. WKittfeelftig ^n/tl^cp9 p^pl^ have for their wives, when they expose their portraits, taken in a state of nudity, and pass them from one to another to pander to the vicious taste of such questionable company,' and yet such scenes as this are said to have been enacted ii> the "New York Tribune" Office. It was into Ittch compiany as this tiiat Mrs. McFirland ^ot introduced, her love ' for her hasbiind m these scenes was smothered, her motive was notoriety, money and dress, End for the sake of this she bar- tered her Tirtne, desolated her home; drove her husband to a state of frenzy, and ruined the future prospects of her off-spring. Thank God, such women as Mrs. McFarlaiid Bich- atdson are few and far between, the generality of women are true and faithful to their hus- bands, an ornament to their sex, and a bless- ing to those about them. A mercenary woman, whose only object is dress and tnoney, is a curse to the man to whom she is tied, a disgrace to her sex, and a lie to herself. Woman, as a rale; holds a man's happiness or misery in her keeping, a kind and loving wife who appreciates her position, will know how to value it, and such as these, we are happy to say, are the rule and not the ex- cention. Mrs. McFarland is doubtless a fine woman as regards looks, but her morals are rotten to the core. What mast she think of her- self, when she sees the man whom she pro- mised to love, honor, and obey, confined in durance vile, and held under arrest, on a charge of assassination, brought about by her own conduct ? if she has the feelings of a woman she will loathe herself; Mrs. McFar- land says: '* I know my husband loves me dearly, he thinks the sun rises and sets on my head." Why, then, if she knows this has she so far forgotten her duty. McFarland loved and does love his wife, even now, to madness, he was a kind, indalffent husband, an excellent father to his children, his greatest pride was in striving to make them happy, and in con- versation with his friends ne would often say: ** Did you ever see my wife T Oh I what a heavenly woman ! Of course you heard of my shooting Richardson f He stole her away from me. Good God! how I loved that woman! Loved her! ah! how feebly love expresses the affection I felt for her ! Why, sir, 1 would wash her feet I would bathe \ her toes with my tears. I would — what would I not do for the woman I so worshipped 7 And then, sir, her intellect ! There was no woman in New York State with her brilliancy of intellect. There's her only counterpart, sir." And here he would point to his little boy Percy. " There's a boy, sir. who has not his equal in the world, for his years. Let me show you the verses he wrote when he was seven years old." Then he would read the lines. N^xt he would pat ^he boy on the head, insist upon hlaf drldking ^Mpsy. ^nA t^xaxnxit int affec- tionately maudlin tones : ' " Wonderful boy, sir ! wonderful boy I Why, only the day before yesterday he wrote in his copy-book, * Vice brings its own deserts !' Wasn't that a marvellous stretch of genius for such a child 7 But I educatec: him my- self, sir^-myself— just as I developed the intellect of my wife, Abbie, sir, and made her famous. And now— ^now— «he's gone off with Richardson.'* But at last misfortune overtook him, his wife's love for him (if ever she had any) ceased, she found a younger man with money, for him she forsook her old love, and followed him blindly, and now what is the conse- quence of her folly 7 One she has brought to an untimely g^ave and the other to a prison cell ; had sne visited some peasant's cottage Previous to her marriage, she would there ave seen what real love was, had she done so we should not now have to comment so strongly upon her conduct, and any right- minded woman we think will agree with as in saying, that a woman who can so far for- get herself, is not worthy the name of wife 6r the sacred name of mother. ITiere are, however, other persons whose conduct in this matter is even more bkuna- ble than those we have named, men of stand- ing in (Church and State; men who ought to have had too much respect for the posi- tions they fill, than to allow themselves to be mixed up in such disgraceful proceedings. We allude to Mr. Colfax, Vice-President of the United States; the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. O. B. Frothingham, and Dr. Field, who by reputation are supposed to be Christian mmisters (1) Mr. Coiiax in his ofiBcial capacity was intimately acquainted with Richardson, (who doubtless had some good qualities to recommend him, for there are none so bad but what they have some redeeming features,) and must have known of his illicit intercourse with Mrs. McFarland. Yet this man, who has received the confi- dence of his countrymen for morals as w«ll as ability, has virtually endorsed Richard- son's conduct in this matter. Is thin man who has mixed himself up in the liasuus of a guilty pair — is this man, we ask, a fit perKon to stand at the head of a mighty nation, to be the dispenser of its laws, and its exemplar of morality 7 We would not give much for his virtues if his conduct in this matter is a specimen of them. We should like to place Mr. Colfax in McFarland's position. What would the yice-Fresident think and do, if it THB BICUABDSON-MoFABLAND TBAGEDY. 21 was his wife who had been seduced firom him? What woald be his opinibn of the man, who held a pnblic position, who would come forward and sympathize with the sedncer? Should Mr. Oolfax ever become President, (the prospects of which we fear he has blasted,) we tremble for the morality of the nation, and should expect to see a Yolume issued from the press, entitled the "Mysteries of the Court of America;" we shoald have our churches turned into Serag- lio's, and our homes into Harems. We trust it will not be long before Mr. Colfax comes to his senses, and sees how odious he has made himself in the eye's of the people. The Beecher family seem bent upon keep- ing the world in a continual state of excite- ment. Mrs. Beecher Stowe rakes up the ashes of a dead Byron, and heaps scandal upon his head, and puts the whole of Christen- dom in a ferment, so soon as that began to quiet down, then her Beverend brother comes forward as the champion of an adulterer and seducer. Well may we say what next, and next ? Here is a man who on the Sabbath and during the week preaches to crowded houses, rehearsing in tne ears of vast audi- ences the principles of the ten commandents. Does Mr. Beecher know what is meant by the words: *'Thon shalt not commit adul- tery." ** Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife," and other similar expressions 7 If he does understand it, as we presume he does, how can he reconcile his conduct in this matter 7 An old saying is : " It is a good divine ^at follows his own teaching." Mr. Beecher has compromised himself as a Christian man, he has made himself odious to the whole Christian church. He says, he was notper« sonally acquainted with Bichardson. Why, then, in tne name of common sense did he interfere 7 When he must have known that by doing so he would be approving of, and aiding and abetting in, the commission of a sin which is so solemnly denounced in holy writ ; had he gone in execution of his minis- terial functions, and remonstrated with the guilty pair on the course they were pursuing, we should have thought more of nim, and considered he was dding his duty ; but when we find him in company with the Bev. 0. B. Frothingham and Dr. Field, assisting in the commission of a crime of bigamy, the re- spect we hare hitherto had for these gentle- men, resolves itselfinto unmitigated contempt and disgust. If Ward Beecher, Mr. Frothing- ham, and Dr. Field belong to the free love community, the soonei' they vacate their pulpits, the better for their hearers, for no man who believes in the Christian doctrine can, without violating its principles, be a free lover. Yes, it is the pious, the popular, the ad- mired, the revered Henry Ward Beecher, who comes boldly, and even proudly, for- ward, holding by the hand, and leading Lust to her triumph over Beligion! Who can read the narrative, and not wish that Ply- month Church were sunk into the irround until the peak of its gable should be beneath the surface of the earth ! And Mr. Beecher was assisted by the Bev. Mr. Frothingham, who blasphemed ma prayer to God which contained these words : " Father we thank Thee for what these two have been to each other y and for what they may he yet" Mr. Frothingham may plead in his defence that he does not believe in the Scriptures ; but Mr. Beecher, who has been engaged for several years past upon a Life of Christ, should have reminded him that our Saviour said: "I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adul- tery ; and whosoever shall marry her thai %8 divorced committeth adultery," We intend, in the following pages, to give .to our readers a complete history of the Bichardson-McFarland tragedy from its com- mencement to the present time. The whole of the facts can be relied on, being compiled by an intimate acquaintance of McFarland, and will, no doubt, excite considerable in- terest in consequence of the position of the parties concerned. Mr. McFarland was born in Ireland, in 1820, and is a lawyer by profession ; he was married to his present wife in 1858, and br her has had two children, the possession of one of whom was the subject of a lawsuit in 1867. Mr. Bichardson is a native of New Eng- land, and a brother of the editor and pro- prietor of a religious journal, in Bostom. He was the secret correspondent of the TW- hune in the South while the acts of secession were being passed there, and the army cor- respondent of the Tribune in the West during the war. While in the discharge of the duties of that position he was captured, and suffered confinement, for a time, in both Lib by and Salisbury prisons. He escaped from them, and, crossing the country, reached the Union lines. Soon afterward he published the "Field, Dungeon, and Escape," a book which has reached the extraordinary circulation of 96,000 copies. He subsequently published the life of General Grant, regaiwi as one of the most complete of the manj^ i^ks written about that distinguished General. On the opening of the Pacific Bailroad, Mr. Bich- ardson was sent over that road by the Tri- bune^ and gave to this newspaper much interesting correspondence, replete with facts not previously known in relation to the far West. He has also published a work en- titled " Beyond the Mississippi,*' which al- ready has attained a circulation of 70.000 <;opies. Becently, Mr. Bichardson was sent by the Tribune, to Chicago, St. Louis, and other places in the West and Southwest, and the results of his observation in those sections of the country have already ap- peared. Mr. Bichardson has for many years been known as one of the most industrious workers on the press, and his writings have always been noted for their simplicity and I S2 THE BIOHABDSON-McFARLAND TBAGEDY. power of expression, and for the gre^t amount of valuable and interesting informa- tion they contain. The causes which led to the fatal tragedy in the Trilnme office are as follows : Mr. Richardson, who was a frequent visi- tor to the house of the publisher of the 2Vi^ j bune, Mr. Sinclair, happened one evening some three years ago, to meet and become introduced there to the wife of Mr. McFar- land. Mr. Sinclair's house was said to be the rendezvous of many literary ladies and gentlemen, whose names are quite familiar in journalistic circles, and whose topics of conversation embraced, among other things, the relations of the sexes, and the principle of psychological affinities. Mrs. McFarland was just sufficiently educated and metaphysi- cally inclined to understand and taice an interest in these novel themes of contro- versy, and Mr. Richardson, who had a similar tendency of thought, naturally began to take some concern in his new and attractive acquaintance. It is alleged that Richardson was an apostle of free love doctrines, but there is sufficient evidence for stating that this assertion puts his position unduly and untruly strong. Originally he had no repu- tation as an advocate of Fourierite vagaries, but it is said he relished the discussion of socialistic theories, and was finally led to take an advanced view (if it may be called ad- vanced) of the sexual relations, by stronger minds than his own. There are men and women in this city, holding high position in the esteem of the community, whose private views on certain subjects deemed sacred and settled by ordinary people, are of a strangely subversive character. Some of them were acquaintances of Richardson, and were es- pecially fond of engaging him in the ventila- tion of their pet ideas on the organization of Christian society. Richardson took suf- fioient interest in Mrs. McFarland to exert himself, in an indirect way, to procure her an engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre, from Mr. William Stuart. THS PBOCmS OF TH2 BIPENINO INTIIIAOT. Some ti J^after he went to board in Amity street, and from time to time met Mrs. McFarland. from whom he took certain manu- scripts to try and dispose of. Mr. McFar- land, it appears, was in very flourishing circumstances at this time, and his wife pro- fessed to be compelled to earn her own liykiff and occasionally his. The story goes that Richardson finally went to board at the house in which McFarland, his wife and chUdren were living, and that there the in- timacy between the former and Mrs. McFar- land ripened into uncontrollable passion. Mrs. McFarland was a woman of personal I raotiveness. She and her husband and Jdren, in the year 1867, occupied apart- ts adjjouiing those of Richardson, who .a young widower with children. As we 3 iaxorm^i Mrs McFarland got into the hit of ffoing out to lunch frequently, if not ily, with Richardson. After this had ne on for some time, her husband remon- strated with her against such a practice, telling her that it would give rise to scandal. She replied that she had not before reflected upon that consequence, and promised imme- diate amendment. Coming home earlier than usual the next day, McFarland was met in the hall by his wife, who came rush- ing suddenly, and as if surprised, from Rich- ardson's apartments, and then, by way of atonement, she threw her arms convulsively around him and buried him in a shower of passionate kisses. They then went to his room, where he gently reminded her that she had broken her promise ; she again promised reform ; they spent the night to- gether, and in the morning she continued to cover him with terms of endearment, finally begging him, as he left, to return earlier than usual, assigning as the reason of her request that she had not had enough of his society of late; that she was lonely, and wished to see more of him. In compliance with her impassioned wish, he did return earlier than usual, and found on his table a note from his wife, stating that she had left him ! In fact, Richardson had taken her and his tvfo children away from himf and from his home, whither he knew not. Sub- sequently, on the 12th of March, 1869. Richardson published a card, containing the shameless statement — respecting a woman who was a lawful wife of another man — that after the separation between Mrs. McFar- land and her husband, " it came to be under- stood between her and myself thai whenever she should be legally free, she should become my wife" Yet no intelligent, reasoning human being can doubt, from the evidence in the case, that this separation was pro- moted and brought about — and not unlikely originally suggested — by Richardson him- self! How far Richardson was justified in seek- ing lodgings so near a woman whose looks and language it was impossible he could have previously failed to interpret as being meant for encouragement to him, is a ques- tion which each man's sense of propriety can decide for himself. Richardson and McFarland were acquaintances, and what is flippantly called friends. The latter would, no doubt, have sooner and more promptly resented the intimacy which the former ex- hibited toward his wife, had he been less thoroughly and kindly acquainted with him. As it was, he bore the torturing attentions of Richardson, with a restless and chafing spirit, which finally culminated in the shoot- ing of Richardson, as he was accompanying Mrs. McFarland home from the theatre, the evening of March 19. 1867. The wound was not dangerous, and Richardson was only confined to his room for a few days. Let us now glance at McFarland's statement made immediately after his recent arrest, as it apparently embraces THE RICHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 28 TEX ICASBOW 07 AN EZTBAOBDIHABT STOBT. I lived harmoniously and happy with my wife for nine years — absolute happiness — until she formed the acquaintance of this man Richardson ; from that moment my happiness was destroyed. We had differences of opinion, and oftentimes unpleasant words in regard to her conduct, but these quarrels were condoned, and mutual happiness ex- isted between us up to the time she loft me, on the 2l8t of February, 1867. 1 entreated her not to take the step ; I plead with her, for her children's sake, not to go ; 1 told her history could not produce the parallel of snch neartlessness on a mother's part as that which prompted the step she was about to take ; but it was of no avail ; she was inOi fetuated with the destroyer of my domestic! peace, and she left my home with him, takJ mg with her my two children ; for two years she has been supported by Richardson ; and in order to get possession of my boy I was obliged, at great expense, to bring suit and recover him by a habeas corpiis: I lived with my wife nine years in the most perfect harmony and happiness ; I am a family man ; I am and always was a devoted family man; and while I was in affluent circumstances she appeared to be happy. When I lost my property a change came over her ; her love for me forsook her. and Richardson com- pleted the wreck of my domestic happiness. 1 was always kind to her and affoctionate toward my children, and the statements to the contrary are false, and set afloat by Richardson's journalistic friends ; so like- m'ise are the stories that I am a drunkard ; 1 am a temperate man, but the trouble I have undergone has been enough to drive me to drink, or even worse. Richardson entered my house by a subterfuge , he planned it with the landlady to have it ap- pear that she (the landlady) hnd introduced them to each other. He even induced my wife to hire rooms at No. 61 Amity street, t where he was boarding, but I refused to go ; and finding that she could not go there, he left and took rooms at No. 72 Amity street, where we were then boarding. Tlie state- ment is made that I gave my consent to a mutual separation. This is not true. I made every effort to prevent her from going, and never did anything tliat could be con- strued as acquiescing in her leaving me. In the habeas corpus case she never called a witness to prove that I had been brutal or unkind toward her ; and on the contrary, I can prove by persons wherever we have boarded that my treatment of her has been marked by the utmost courtesy and conju- gal affection. McFarland cherished a perfect monomania on the subject of his wife's desertion and Richardson's connection therewith. He has been seen, time upon time again, to stop with a gpatmodic halt in front of the Tn- bune office, gace wistfully up at the windows, and walk away, with head oppressed; and saddened, haggard expression of face. Oc- casionally, he met Richardson in the streets, and would implore him to give back his wife and children. Richardson invariably exhibit ed on these occasions a kindly and respect- ful manner, never saying anything to pro- voke the already irritated and distracted hus- band, and yet altogether unable to satisfy the impassioned demand made upon him. Then McFarland would go up in the Tribune office, and wander aroimd there mechanically. It was on one of these occasions he saw a let- ter addressed. "Mrs Abby McFarland" lying in the box intended for the post, and, guess- ing with a prompt instinct that it came from Richardson, he took and deliberately put it in his pocket. This was the intercepted let- ter, the contents of which the trial of Mc- Farland is expected to disclose. Its chief point is not revealed in the above personal statement, but a reliable authority, who has perused the document, says that Richardson therein congratulates Mrs. McFarland on the near fruition of their mutual hopes, and that the labor of securing and nourishing her af- fections is at last to obtain its supreme reward. In a card on the subject, last March, refer- ring to this particular letter. Mr. Richardson, over his own name, spoke of MoFABLAKD AMD THB LXTTXB. A :natement has just appeared from Mc- Farland, who attempted to assassinate me two years ago. He alleges that he was *' a temperate, kind-hearted, good man, and a kind, affectionate, and generous husband;" but that I " seduced the affections of his wife " from him, and '* enticed her from his home." Roth allegations against me are utterly and preposterously false. These are the facts : 1. With the full sanction of her family and friends, Mrs. McFarland left her hus- band, charging him with gross cruelty during his paroxysms of intemperance ; with ne- glecting to support her, and with living upon and sometimes squandering her own hard- won earnings. The charge of ill-treatment did not rest solely upon her statements, but stood, and yet stands, explicitly ad;aitted in his own hand-writing, and over his own sig- nature, long before I knew either of them. ITiat will appear in due time, before the proper tribunal. At their last interview, in presence of several witnesses, she distinctly announced that the separation was final and irrevocable, and he as distinctly acquiesced. 2. After this formal and final separation, and while she was beginning life anew, with two little children dependent upon her, it came to be understood between her and myself that whenever she should be legally free she was to become my wife. Several of my friends and several of hers were acquainted with the fact. 3. About three weeks after the separation, McFarland intercepted a letter from me to her — such a letter as one would naturally write to the woman he expected to marry. 24 THE MCHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY McFarland claimed that it ** frenzied him/' but there was method, not to say deliberation, in his "frenzy." Instead of meeting me face to face, he kept this letter in his pocket three days, and finally, at 11 o'clock on a dark, rainy night, crept up behind me in the street, and with his revolver within fourteen inches of my back, began to shoot. Before he could fire the fourth shot, I succeeded in throwing him to the ground, where I held him untu the police came up, and secured him. One ball only took effect, keeping me in bed for a week, I refrained from prosecuting him, partly because I knew 1 had been rash, but chiefly to withhold the lady's name from an additional and unavoidable publicity. 4. For weeks and months after this, he earnestly sought to induce her to return to her ** kind " and affectionate husband. Finding this hopeless, he seems since to have devoted himself chiefly to slandering her, and read- ing an alleged copy of my letter, with many dramatic accompaniments, to every acquaint- ance or stranger who will listen to it. Some- times he ends his tale : "And now, after all, I don't believe the scoundrel will ever marry her I " But his common peroration is that if I ever do, he will kill me " on sight." Finally, he has brought suit against me for civil damages, rating the money value of his wounded affections at $45,000, that, at least, ought to prove some equivalent for being de- prived of the "affectionate" privilege of striking a helpless woman in the face, or terrifymg her with a brandished knife, and baffled in the " temperate " act of stealing up in the dark behind an unarmed man and snooting him in the back. Whatever the intercepted letter really con- tains, he would better p'int it, and save him- self the trouble of many future readings and declaimings. I wrote it for but one person ; yet I did write it, and I propose to stand by it. Whatever fault there was in holding such an attitude toward a lady who had very recently separated from her husband was solely mine, and I shall not try to palliate it. Whatever sum twelve unbiased men may determine that I owe this " good '* and " tem- perate " antagonist, I shall with alacrity pay it, if it comes within my modest means. And, finally, whatever violence he may re- threaten or re-attempt, should the lady ever be le^lly free during my life-time, she will certamly become my wire, if she will accept so poor a man as I. Albert D. Richardson. New York, March 1 2, 1869. BEOOTINa IK THS TBIBUKE COXrHTniG- BOOM. On the afternoon of Thursday, November 25th, Mr. Richardson was met in the Tribune office by Mr. Daniel McFarland. Mr. McFarland, it appears, had been in the office about an hour before Mr. Richardson's arrival, and seemed to have known that the latter would call at or about five o'clock. At the time of Mr. Richardson's entrance into the room, McFarland was standing be- hind the desk, opposite the right hand door, opening on Nassau street, and was therefore concealed from view. Mr. Richardson, en- tirely unconscious of the danger impending over him, and ignorant of the presence of McFarland, advanced to the lower end of the counter, and asked for his letters. Be- tween him and McFarland, and outside the counter, a gentleman was reading liie paper, or searching the pages of the Directory. As Mr. Richardson leaned over toward the desk of the advertising clerk, McFarland rushed from his hiding place, raised his pistol, and aiming directly over the head of the stranger, at Mr. Richardson, fired. The ball entered the body of the victim at a point midway between the breast and the abdomen, and lodged in the stomach. The wounded man turned, and for the first time saw his assailant. Without speaking a word he walked to the Spruce street door, thence into the street, and up four flights of stairs to the editorial rooms, where he quietly lay down upon a sofa, called a gentleman to him, remarked that he was badly wounded, and asked to have a surgeon sent for at once. In a few minutes a physician arrived, and Mr. Richardson was removed to the Astor House. So apparently unmoved was he on leaving the publication room, that the fact of his being wounded was not known to the clerks until the arrival of the surgeon. In the meantime McFarland had escaped. De- tectives were put upon his track, and at 10 o'clock he was arrested at the comer of Irving place and Sixteenth street, by Captain Allaire, of the Fourth Precinct, ana Detective Finn, who at once carried their prisoner to the room of the wounded man, at the Astor House. On being asked whether the prisoner was the man who shot him, Mr. Richardson answered qoietiy in the affirmative, and McFarland was then taken to the Fourth Precinct station-house and locked up. MoFABLAKB IN THS STATIOir-HOiriB. A representative of the Tribune called on Mr. McFarland at the Fourth Ward station- house, where he saw him comfortably quar- tered in Captain Allaire's private room. The only person present was a policeman, who had been detailed to watch the prisoner. Mr. McFarland was smoking and seemed calm and quite unconcerned. He was in- disposed to converse about the shooting or the circumstances attending it, and re- marked that the whole affair seemed like a dream, and that he was very much confused at the time. When asked if there was any additional provocation for the deed beyond that which had been made public by his shooting Mr. Richardson in March, 1867, he answered that he had iust been informed that Mr. Richardson had procured for his wife a fraudulent divorce somewhere in the State of Illinois, and that he (Richardson) had been married to her. Not having the THE BIOHARDSON-McFABLAND TRAGEDY. 26 means legally to prosecute Mr. Bichardson, he had heen compelled to accept the situa- tion of affairs, ana content himself with the possession of one of his children, allowmg the other to remain with his wife. Being in- formed that Mr. Richardson was making preparations to leave the country, that he had sold bis property in New Jersey, and believing that he contemplated taking with him his wife and child, he became frenzied, and committed the deed, which he claimed was bnt the law of nature. Mr. McFarland objected to being interrogated with reference to the circumstances which caused him to visit the Tribune office last evening. He said he did not notice which way Mr. Rich- ardson went after the shooting. On leaving the office, which he did immediately after, he walked up Centre street, and feeling weak and hungry stepped into a restaurant — he did not know exactly the location — and par- took of a stew and a ciip of coffee. Pro- ceeding up town he called on his brother, and in company with him went to the Westmoreland Hotel, where he registered his name and was given a room. He arrived at the hotel about 7 o'clock, and was arrested about 10 o'clock by Captain Allaire. He inquired of the Tribune reporter the condition of Mr. Richardson, it being then midnight, and when told that he would probably recover, he received the news with apparent indifference, although he had pre- viously expressed his sorrow for the act he had committed. He seemed qiiite com- fortable, and was smoking the entire time. KR. BICHABDSOirS MABBIAOE. For several days the unfortunate man clung tenaciously to life, until Tuesday, No- vember 30th, when Mr. Richardson was thought to be so low that his desire to have the marriage ceremony performed between himself and Mrs. McFarland, was deemed proper to comply with, and as the lady for whom his attachment had been so irrepres- sibly expressed was herself anxious that the final seal of matrimony should mark her re- lations with him before he passed away, it was arranged that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher should solemnly unite the two in formal legal wedlock. Rev. 0. B. Frothing- ham and Rev. N. M. Field participated in the ceremony, and many friends and ac- quaintances were present m the room. Mrs. McF'arland held the hand of her rash and prostate lover, and the holy divines proceeded to pray and perform the work of making the two spiritually one. It was this ceremony which would appear to have shocked so severely the moral and religions sensibilities of the entire community, and may be there- fore worth giving in full, that people may form a clearer judgment as to what was pre- cisely aaid by the officiating ministers of the gospel. The Rev. 0. B. Frothingham offered vp the following MATRIMONIAL PEATSR: " 0, our Father, may it please Thee in this place and at this moment, to bless these Thy children with that blessing which Thou alone canst give — a blessing that shall make the dying bed full of peace and satisfaction and gratitude ; that sh&ll make the living heart rail of courage and faith. Bind together these two hearts, our Father, and though the hands may not hold each other through the journey or life, may these hearts still bo one before Thee, to whom life and death, the world to come and this world are the same. Father, we thank Thee for what these two have been to each other, for what they may be yet. May he take her image with him to the spiritual life, and may she, bearing his name and vindicating his honor, carry him about with her through all the pilgrmiage that is yet before her, to strengthen, her courage and give her patience under her burden, to help her through all her care. Bless those who may depend upon her. Bless the little ones who are left in the world without their father. Be Thou their father, their mother, their constant friend. And in the assurance of the heavenly life, may he pass unto thee ; may she remain with them and him here below." Now we approach THE BEPXnCHEAL BBIDAL 8ISYIGE PBOPEB» which was administered by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and which we give in full as it occurred: — Mr. Beecher (to Mr. Richardson) — Do you take the woman whom you have by your side now, in this hour, standing near the heavenly land, and renew to Her the pledges of your love ? Do you give your heart to her, and your name? Is she, before God and before these witnesses, your beloved, your honored and your lawful wife ? Mr. Richardson (in an audible and clear voice) — Yes. Mr. Beecher (turning to Miss Sage or Mrs. McFarland,) — And do you accept him as your head in the Lord 7 And are you now to him a wife sacred and honored, bearing his name 7 And will you love him to the end of your life ? Miss Sage— I do, and wilL Mr. Beecher— -Then by the authority given me by the Church of Christ I do pro- nounce you husband and wife ; and may the blessing of Almighty God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, rest upon yon and abide with you. Amen. The ceremony was impressive in one sense, but sadly suggestive of grim and hallow materialism. Not a word of the softening salve of Christian hope and consolation was spoken, and the voice of the Plymouth church pastor is said to have had a strangely religio-theatric tone. One-third of the means which Mr. Richardson left became now the property of his death-bed bride. At five minutes past five o'clock, last Thursday THE RIOHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. niornin°:, he expired. Thiring the night brandy and other Btimalanta were fciven him. but death liad then set in and they had no effect. He lay the last two hDaiH of hia life perrectly naconscioai and then passed quietly away, without being' able to recognize tiiose who Borrouuded his bedside. Among them wpre his brother, C. A. Bichardaon, his son. L. P. Kicliardson. his wife, Mrs. Mc- Farland-Sage, Dr. Swan, Mr. and Mrs, Rnlder, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, and one or two newspaper writers. It was a deeply affecting scene to wliiuh the proronndly ^orrow-strieken Tace of the dead roan's son, who, though so yoang, seemed in bin thought- ful connteaance to realize the intense deso- lation or his father's dying moments, and the cruel, wanton glare of rnlgar curiosity turned upon him while the breath of lire was flattering in his body, Vice-President Col- fax called at the Astor House in the morning, and when told of his friend's final departure, appeared greatly moved. Though Dr. Carter from the first declared that there was not «ne chance ia a thomiand of his recovery, his friends were sanguine that, because of his Ti go reus constitution, the wounded man would recover, until a few days before his death, when nam is laic ably unfavorable symp- toms showed themselves. iKiurftnBi. It will be remembered that shortly after the shooting of Mr. Richardson by Mr, Farland, Coroner Eeenan was notified, and the ante-mortem eianaination of Mr. Rich- ardson was taken hy that official. On Thursday moniiii!.-. IVcemher 2d. Coroner Keenan was duly nntHii'd of the death, and he proceeded to make arrangements for ati inquisition as to the cause of death. in intimating the course he should pursue, Coroner Eeenan stated that he should empanel a jury of well known and intelligent citizens. He should confine himself in tlie inquiry to tlie shooting at the Tribune office, without going into the doraestio details of any of the parlies concerned ; therefore any- thing relating to the causes nf separation of Mrs. UeFai-Iand from Mr. MeParlsnd, ur the origin and progress of her intimacy with her lale husband, would not be taken in evidence by him, but lie should leave all matter of that kind to be brought out and dealt with by ano titer tribunal. At four o'clock in the afternoon the following gentlemen were empanelled at the Astor House as a jury for tlie purposes of this inoniaition : Pliilip Sands, druggist, 141 William street; JeremiaiiQninlan, manu- facturer of glass, 138 William street; John P. Uummings, jeweler, 2 John sireet; Hugo Sohurmann. secretary Germania Life In- surance. 175 Broadway ; N, Ammeran, rashier Mercantile Bank. 191 Broadway; Alexander Hudnut, druggist, al8 Broadway; Cliarles H . Knox, hatter, 2 12 Broadway ; F. O. Herring, safe manufacturer, 251 Broad> way ; Henry H. Leeds, auctioneer, 99 Cham- bers street. The jury, attended by Coroners Keenan and Oushmnn, then proceeded to view ihe boi]y of Mr. Richardson, which was lying in roum No. 115. I'he room is of small dimen- sions, and the jury crowded it. and afUr they had taken their official view and left the room, the members of the city prett were invited to take their view of all that was mortal of Mr. Albert D. Richardson. The further holding of the inqneat wu suspended at this Stage, except the post mortem eiaminatlon, the formal taking of further evidence being adjourned to a fatnre ArPEARAXil 01 THZ SXCUIKD. On a small, low bedstead wu the body, the rigid oulluie of which rould be seen underneath the white sheet that covered it The month firmly set, with the thin lips that physiologists tell us are indicative of strength of will, and the cold, icy forehead th^t in life had throbbed with so rapid a sno- cession of thought, attracted at once the painful gaze of the observing gronp. There were HO tell-tale marks of recent anguish, eitlier of body or sonl, upon the placid face; the head rested on the snow wliite pillow, is Lhcngh he was sleeping a first Bleep, after the hard work of a weary day, instead of that sleep that will never know any waUng in this frail world. Those amon^ the press- iTK'n who had known him in life aajd he was little changed; sickness, suffering, sorrow, joy, anguish, passion, delirium, a clinging to lile that has astonished all who have been his attendants, a sudden and tragic call U) ■ dying bed had left no traces on that pale, cold brow. La Rocherfourcanid saya Uiat neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily ; but the gaze on that dead, stiffened form, and into that face, was steady «tine;" I then Inquired of him, "What did able to Bnd the pistol. Mr. Knox — Did he speak guardedly or otherwise when yon spoke to him t A. No ; he spoke freely. Q. Did he appear excited ? A. No ; when 1 went in he smiled. He was ap- farently conversing with his brother when knocked; he came and opened the door iiimself ; I said, " Uood morning. Mr. McPar- iond ; you are my prisoner." He then In- 'quired, " Weil, where are yon going to take meT" I answered, "To the Four3i Ward station-house." I was just long enough at the hotel to arrest the prisoner, search him and the beds to try and find the pistol; I fonnd him by following his brother to the hotel ; I looked on the hotel register, and Mc- ' Farland's was the last name registered ; this waa ten o'clock at night. TSITIMOinr OT DB. BTAV. Dr. Charles T. Swan, resident phvsician at the Astor House, was placed on the wit- neas itaad. Be explained how he was called frinii thfl AitoT HooM to the Trt^nt office. by two messengers from the latter to ex- amine Bichardson's wounds. He detailed the anbseqnent proceedings on the part of the attending physicians. Mr. Knox — Have yon any doubt that the wound the deceased received at the Tribvni office was the caase of his death T I)r. Swan— Not tho slightest I h^ve no donbt tliat the pistol wound was the cause of his death. TEE COTTBBE 07 THE BVIXXE. This closed the evidence. Unimportant remarks were made about Dr. Cushman and the post-mortem examination, when Mr. tipencer stood up and read the document on the subject of the latter. The Coroner inter- posed a slight objection, when Mr. Spencer said Brro1y:"we have a motive in reading it." Subsequently he said : " The object I had in view was to show that the direction or the wound was downwards." Tlie Coroner remarked that he had not seen Dr. Cushman since he made the post- mortem, therefore one of the papers in the case remained unsigned. TES COKOirXB'8 CHAKOE-THX TESSICT. The Coroner said : " Gentlemen, in framing your verdict, and in order to fulfil ttie ends of justice and to discharge your duty faith- fulfy, it is only necessary for yon to deter- mine—first, on the cause of the death of the deceased ; second, by whom such death was caused; third, the time and place of such death. That is all there is in this. Now, S lease retire to the room you came [rom, pnd eiiberste upon your verdict, and here ik the testimony to take with you." 'like Jury retired. Messrs. Oraliam and Spencer had anotlier earnest private con- versation with the prisoner. After being absent a short time, tlie jury returned, bring- ing in the following verdict : "That we, the Jurv. find that Albert D. Bichardson come to nis death on 'lliursday rourning, the 2d of December. 1869. from the effects of a pistol ball discharged at him by Daniel McFarland, in the Tribune office, No- vember 25, 1869." XZAHDTATIOK 0? U'FABUBD. The Coroner requested the prisoner to stand up and made the following inquiries : Coroner— What is your age t A, Over 49. Q. Where were you bom ? A. In Ireland. Q. What Jiyonr profession T A, Lawyer. Q. Have yon any statement which yoa wish to make 1 Mr. Graham then read the following; I am instructed by my counsel that nothing I can now advance will have the effect of changing or checking the regular course of the law. The proceeding which has just terminated is one, I am informed, which has to be adopted in a case tike the pr«Mnt. It is, I am adrised, in the nfttiir« 80 THE BIOBABDSON-McPABLAND TEAGEDY. «f the ioqneat of office, m which, by the aaaol practice, I ftin not allowed to interfere by conasel or otherwise, and in the manage- ment of which the range of evidence is ex- clusively within tlie control of the officer who EreBides over aiio Jirects it With the Dowledge that 1 cannot »t this time have the opportunity of corroborating my state- raente by the testimony of witneaBee, and the belief that any narrative that I might indulge in wonld be unattended with any benelit in a legal point of view, I await, for my vindica- tion, the impartial trial guaranteed me by the laws of this State. My accasers will then be confronted with me ; the forms wisely created for the complete development of the truth will then be ob»erved, and the result will then be declared by a jury of my peers. While I fully appreciate my sitnnlion, and regard the future with becoming concern and Boiicitudei it may be that time will demon- Btrale that the sanctity and safety of more pouial and moral interesta depend upon the SDcceas of my defence, than identify or con- nect themselves with the maintenance of the prosecution. The jnrymen were dismissed, and the prisoner wait conducted back to the Tomba. TEE imORLL IBBTIOES. At 12.30 o'clock, on Fridav. the fonerat aervices were performed over ttie remains of the late Albert D. Richardson, at the Astor House, preparatory to their removal to Franklin, Mass., for Interment As it was not d«airable that any but the friends and co-laborers of the deceased ahonld be present, and to avoid any gathering of cnrioua per- eons, no announcement had been made in this relation. Notwithstanding this fact. quite a large gathering were m the corridor leading to room 41, in which were the re- mains, long before the hour appointed. One of the Messrs. Stetson, actmg as usher, prevented the entrance of any but friends. When these hod all entered, the restrictions were released until the services had been completed. THE AFFZABAirCE Or TEX BODT. The coffin containing the remains was in the centre of the room. It was of hi|[hly polished rosewood. On the lid. which was partially removed, was a silver pinle. bearing this inscription; "Albert D. Richardson, ditd December 2, 1M6S, aged ^6 years 6 vwaths." Ilecorationa of wreaths of camel- lias and tube roses were laid on the ci while rnnning entirely around the oulside ed;;ea of the caae were vines of immortelles. The body was arrayed in full dresa, the right hand, holding a small bouquet, resting on his bosom. The face wae scarcely changed, except being, perhaps, a shade more meagre than in life, with the eyes sunken slightly. It bore no evidence of phyaioal agony en- 'llie face of the deceased ' 9 exposed. and wore a look of firm calmneas. Mr. Richardson, judging from his appearance u he lay in the coSu. was not to aay a hand- some man. but might have been extremely amiable and wiunmg in his manner. &u light blonde beard was trimmed cloae at tbt aides and permitted to expand into a tuft tt the chin and on the upper lip. He had s large, prominent forehead, overshadowing the face and leaving the eyes shrunk away in their sockets. His mouth was somewhat large, and shut with an expression of dete^ rainatiou. After the ceremony a plaster cast was taken of the face. There seemeil to be a great deal of interest to hear whit Henry Ward Beecher had to aay in defence of himself against the attacks that have appeared against him (or his celebration of the memorable death'bed marriage. The sentiment of curiosity brought many guests of the house, especially ladies, down iuto the corridor, and the door of the private parlor was quite extensively surrounded. THZ FUEEBAI, ASBEHStAOE. In the room and aurrounding the coffin were all the most intimate friends, male sod female, of the deceased. In the group were Horace Greeley, Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair. Colonel I'homaa W. Knos, Junius Henri Brown, Whitelaw Reid, E. C. Stedman; near them deceased's newly married wife, now a widow, and her children, all In dense mourning. A little to the left of these sit Hr. and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, while the Rev. Hr. Frothingham aat a little in advance and to the left of them. Scattered aroimd the room were other friends attd companions ; Hr. Gnlbum, with whcHU the deceased anfTered captivity duriHg the war; Mesara. Oliver. Johnson, Lamed, Wilsoa. Bradford, Howell, the Measrs. Stetson, ud others. The lady friends sat in a gronp just behind the officiating olergymen. During the services manifestations of grief were general. When the Rev. Henry Wird Beecher uttered his preliminary enlogiali- cal remarks, which he did with a most remarkable earnestness and emphasis, tears suffused the eyes of nearly every one Ereeent. It was evident that Uie asatm- lage were the dead man's friends in every tenae of the word — friends whose sympathy and love was not bom in a day, ano will The time fixed having arrived, the funeral services were commenced as arranged. ADSBBSB BT BEV. 0. B. JBOTHIXaEiM. 1'he following remarks were made by the Rev. 0. B. Frothingham: ■• Dear Fbirnds :— We stand here at this moment in the presence of Qod. The world is not with us in this chamber, only tliat G-reat Spirit which searches all bearta, that kind Spirit that never hat«s. never deteru. never forgets ; that Inflnita forgivenea» which imootliei out all the T«i%h piaees o( ALBERT D. RICHARDSOH, THE RICHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 83 fe, and strengthens everything that is teated, and welcomes all at last to the eter- nal arms. Let us feel that we are in the presence of the All-holy-Eye. Ijet our thoughts be gentle, all our words be trust- ful, let our hopes be sweet, and pure, and bigh. Being asked to say a few words, I bmII not trouble you by taking you into the secret of this sad history, so sadly ended. Let us leave the secret of it to Ilim who alone knows the secret. It is not for any of ns to go into the heart of this sorrow ; it is not for any of us to probe the wounds, or to sit in iudgment on any person. The aan whose body lies before us here, stricken down in middle life, in the height of his power and of his usefulness, was a man who laked no favors for himself while he lived. 5e was clear-sighted, clear-hearted, very trong of purpose, and very brave of spirit, ^ere he alive he would answer them him- elf. His sickness, as you know, was pain- Ul. He bore it without a murmur, never daring death, saying that he feared pain, ut never showing it. Through all these ays, when he was hanging between life nd death, no complaint escaped his lips, no arsh words of judgment or of criticism. To reflection upon the deeds, the thoughts, r the motives of others. Nothing severe ifainst his enemy ; nothing but tenderness id unspeakable gratitude to all his friends. e was a man of great industry, and his idustry (of how few can it be said ?) was )ent in instructing and helping his fellow- len. His career was one of labor. He elcomed labor ; but the labor that he gave, 3 gave toward those ends that were noble, ist, generous, and humane. He was a arm-hearted and consistent friend, liberal ith his hand, with his heart, with all his .lents. I pass no judgment upon him but le judgment of his friends, and they are lose who knew him most intimately — those ho knew him longest — they speak the lost kindly of him, and say that he needs le thinnest veil of charity, to cover up any .ults he may have had. For myself, with 1 my soul, I believe that he was a pure- sarted, single-minded, earnest and true an. If he committed imprudences, so do e all ; if he fell into mistakes, so do we 1. But, in my judgment, his imprudences ere small considering all things, and his istake was small. As I know the story, it ems to me that he conducted himself with agular discretion and with great purity of irpose. Let us remember how complicated e is, how surrounded we are, behind and ifore, with subtle enemies. Let us reraem- r how every time we move, we put our igers on some spring, and it may be a ring, as in this case, that may cause death ; id may we remember, as my friend tried, I lieve, to remember that we live in the esence of God, and that, although our es are all in the dark, they are in God's ;ht, for He changes and guards and brings ! things out into a true ''"""e in the end ; 2 and let us remember the great hereafter where all secrets shall be disclosed; where all shall read the lessons of our life and his, and the infinite love shall pronounce upon the upshot of what we have done and be- lieved. We believe that we shall all stand before God, and let us believe, humbly and meekly, that we are to stand before this same Christ. For the rest, let our hearts be gentle and our feelings kind toward the unfortunate man who brought this, our friend, to his end. Let us make allowance for human infirmities and passions, and let us spread the broad mantle of our charity over him, judging him as we would wish to be judged. Let us think with the utmost tenderness of the woman who is left now so suddenly a widow so soon after she was a wife. Let us remember her loneliness, her long sorrow, the past that was so hard and so bitter, the future that is to be so lonely and dreary, so much work to do and so little help to do it, beyond what she has in her own heart from the love of God and he who is gone before her. Let us wish from our own hearts that she may be strong, true, like a woman convinced that she has done what she thought, in her human strength and weakness, to he the best. And let us think of those litle ones who are left fatherless. Let us think of them tenderly, casting upon them only the sweetest thought as we associate them with their father who lies here dead. Let us learn to share each other's joys and sorrows, to bear each other's burdens, to forgive as we are forgiven, and to do what we may while we live together as brothers and sisters, and children of the same Great Father in Heaven. And may we do our best to allow no bitterness to spring up in our hearts and in the hearts of others to slay convictions, and, perhaps, break up society. And let us, with love and faith, and hope and comfort, help and sus- tain, remembering that here we are only trying to love them that we may live faith- fully and truly in the world beyond. And so may our thoughts follow these friends as they carry these poor remains to mingle with their native dust, remembering that the spirit has always been, and is now, with God. MB. BEECHEB'S DEFENCE. The following is a true report of Mr. Beecher's speech, in his own defence, at the funeral of A. D. Richardson : If I believed that this man by whose corpse I stand, had broken down the wall, and plucked the fairest flower in a neighbor's gar^n, and that he was struck dead for such a crime, surely, I would say no word here to-day. I would offer prayer for the living, but let silence cover him as with a pall. I knew his services to the country, but 1 was not person- ally acquainted with him. I derive my in- formation not from feverish paragraphs which fly about, but from true and high- minded men and women, whose word is law to me, and who knew Mr. Richardson, and THE RICHARDSON-MoFABLAND TRAGEDY. knew, from the very first step of that hietory which haa led to this tragedy, hia feeUoKa, hifl motivea, and his actions ; with whom Tie consulted from day to day, and to whom he laid bare his very heart, in respect to all the transactions connected with this unhappy history. Tliey bear witnesa to hia singular freedom from deceit, to his childish frank- ness, to his truth and honor, in not only all the relationa of his life, but in the whole of this fatal affection. Upon such abundant testimony of many concurring friends, who well unilerstand human life, and human na- ture, I believe him to have been upright. That he was imprudent, that hia sympathy carried him into ways which a nicer pru- dence, and a larger worldly wisdom would have eschewed, ishardly 1o be doubted. But, that he consciously violated any law of God, or any canon of morality which hwman so- ciety has thrown around the household, his moKt familiar friends utterly deny. When death was drawing near, and I was called to unite him to her who now sita deso- late, overwhelmed with multiplied sorrows, / went with alacrity. I beheved that »he ■was both legally and morally justified in teparalion from a brutal husband, who, to excessive and outrageous personal abuse, had also furnished that one extreme ground of divorce which justifies it in the eyes of all Christendom. And the facts and truth are held to be not the less real and morally justifying because she, for her children's sake and for her own, shrank from the odious task of revealing and proving the extreme reasons moving her, and obtained a divorce on a representation of a pact only of the reasons that existed for such a separation. I went often to the throne of grace during the anguish of my conntry'a recent trial for those men who stood by her most faithfully, and I vowed that they should be iny brothers, and that as long as I lived, come what might, if they carried themselves faithfully toward my native land, then they should never lack a. friend in me. There were two classes en- gaged in fighting that rebellion; those who were in the field, and those who kept up the heart and spirit of the country at home. Amon" the latter this man occupied a fore- most place, and did his work nobly and well. And I am willing to stand by his side in this hour of darkness and disrepute. For. mv fiiends, how strange is this hour 1 Death settles all enmities in all ordinary cases ; death reconciles bitterest foes, but here is a case where death creates enemies, and leaves no peace even in the grave. The lion in his strength and in his own fastnesses is able to defend himself, but no sooner has the cruel arrow of the huntsman laid him low than he is set upon by every vile thing, every earth beetle, every fly, every crawling worm, f that he is down, flesh flies are all ar< about him. and death, that is to most men a truce to old enmities, is the very arraying of the battle against him. It is a shame, a sor- row and a disgrace that it should be so. All the more need is there, theiefore, that those who knew him, and knew that he wat a pure and true man, should in thla hour stand fearlessly for his integrity, and shonH not let her who bears his name go down in Che darkness and trouble by reason of the misapprehensions and slanders that have fallen apon him. lie cares no more for it himself, hut oh ! there are children who bear his name ; there is the household which must — l»ving much— suffer much; and there ar( faithfal friends who are witnesses of his in- tegrity. For their sakes we stand here to day. Dot as by a felon, but as with a man worthy to be loved. In taking my farewell of this corpse, I believe that I take leave of a man whom one need not be a ashamed to call a friend. FBATEB ST KB. BEECHSB. Holy and just Thou art, God. Thyej« i pierces all concealment and obscurity. Thon canst read the secrets which are hidden from men. We must once more draw near to Thee, Thou that gives t liberty, in times (rf trouble we hear no voice, we reach out and Snd no hand that we can touch, yet Tboa dost come to us, fulfliling the promises Thon tiast made. Be pleased in Thy providence to clear away all doubt and darkiiese that hava settled on Thy servajit who Ues before us. Be pleased to establish truth and justice, and we beseech of Thee, Lord our God, that Thou wilt spread abroad throughout tha community, those agitated and torn wi^ various discordant themes, a blessed mind, a clearer Judgment, and mote t«mperate fil- ing. Especially for that handmaid would we pray who was led by him, and who is now leading. Never leave ner, never forsake her, snd may there be no day so dark, and no hour so desolate that she may not find that con- solation which alone can come from Tliee. We pray for those who bear hia name. May there be those who will take care of them, and may life bring its blessings to them. We beseech Thee that Thon wilt draw near to all those whose friendship has been griev- ously wounded. And may they have that divine blessing which maketh rich and ad- deth no sorrow. Oh for the spirit of God among men, and for larger trust ; oh for more simplicity and truth. Nor would we forget him who lies imprisoned, and in this hour of our sadness and sorrow, oh God remember him with forgiveness, and gracionsness, and kindness, and overr\ile all events that are yet to transpire for the furtherance of truth and justice. And to the Father, Son, and Holy iSpirit will be the praise forever. IS TEX COBBIDOBS OF THE ABTOB HOUIB. After prayer, the persons present slowly dispersed, fliing round by the coffin, and tak- ing a farewell glance attne placid face of the deceased, A number of ladies retired t« Mrs. McFarland's room, opposite to that I where Richardson breathed his la«t. Mrs. THB mOHAEDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. licFarland received the condoleoce of her TiaitorB with becoming and dignified Badnesa. There were a good many led »y curiosity to vander along the corridor in hopes of obtain- ing a glimpse at the lady whose name with- in the past week has secnred such wide- spread notoriety ; bat all such were doomed to diaappoiDtmctit, and finally, when Mrs. McFarland, leaning on the arm of Mc. Rich- ardson's brother, passed out of the hotel to take passage in the steamer fbr Boston, her face was enveloped in'a thick black veil, that entirely hid her countenance. It seemed that with the departure of Mrs. McFarland ended the interest for those who lingered about the corridors in this strange chapter of love and murder. The few ladies who re- mained were occupied in conversation with several male friends of Biohardson, and judging by tbe light and cheerfultone of the conversation, it would appear that the late calamity had no serious phase of character for them at least. A group here and there diicnssed Henry Ward Beecner's explanation ■ermon in antagonistic terms. Some of those who thought McFarland as much sinned against as sinning, took exception to the reso- lation which Mr. Beecher declared he once made — that of being the friend of a Union defender, no matter what his oSence, and that if a Union defender seduced a man's wife — for this was the logic of Mr. Beecher's position — he might calcolate npon absolution and eulogiom from the pastor of Plymouth Chnrch. Others, especially the ladies, were delighted with the brief sermon ; bat the damagii^ construction of his words as p pie are sure to place upon thent. BTABTnrG FOB THE BITBIAL PUCE. At 3 r, M. on Friday, December 3d, the eolBa WB* finally closed, the body of Mr. Richardson was removed from the room in which the funeral servioea were held, and carried through the side passage of the hotel to Hie door, st which a hearse and some car- riages stood waiting. Mrs. Richardson, Mr. Bichardeon's children, Mrs. Sage, Mr. C. A. Bichardson, a brother of the deceased, and some intimate friends, entered the carriages, and were driven to the pier, where the steam- boat in which the remains were to be taken to Maasachnsetts, lay waiting to start The body waa interred at Franklin, Mass., the native place of Mr. Richardaon, at 8 p. m. on Satnrdfty the 4th. A CUBIOITB OOniCIDEHCE. A carious ftatnre in the case is the fact that two of the physicians who attended Mr. Biohardaon could not Hve. Their treatment ma pounded on this knowledge, and, as it was impngned by other doctors, Drs. Swan wtd 8((yra vnote out their theories of the case and placed them in the same envelope, which was sealed up and given to a third party to be read at the time of holding the post-mortem. At the examination the en- velope was opened, and both diagnoses read. They proved to be alike and correct. THX IHTESCEFTED LEITJStS. McFarland has obtained John Graham, the eminent criminal lawyer, as his counsel. The letters intercepted by McFarland have been placed In Mr. Uraliam's hands ; but no one is permitted to see them. It is asserted, however, by persons who have seen these letters, that there were a number of persons interested in what they call a plot to alienate the affections of Mrs, McFarland from her husband. Several of these persons are said to occupy high positions in social life, and to be well known in the journalistic and literary circles of the city. Two of the parties are, it is said, married women, and both are referred to by name in Bichardson's own handwriting as "capital intriguers, who are helping me." The remains of Richardson reached Frank- lin, Mass., aboat 4 o'clock, i. n., I^aturday, December 4th, in charge of his brother. Several of the relatives of the deceased, among them Mrs. McFarland-Bichardson, accompanied the remains. About 8 o'clock the body was removed to the Congregational Church, and the final ceremonies took place in the presence of over three hundred per- sons, most of whom were ladies. The mother, brother and widow of deceased were the chief mourners. Rev. Luther Keene, pastor of the chnrch, conducted the servicea, which consisted of the singing of a hymn and the reading of passages of Scripture. Rev. Mr. Keene then made some remarks which were designed to be consolatory to the friendB,and to beget resignation to (he sad event. As he had known the deceased personally, he re- frained from entering into the history of his life. He, however, briefly narrated the cir- cumstances of his death, as understood by his friends. The conclusion from these was' that no man's life was so solitary or so isolated as not to produce an effect npon others when it ceased. The brief life terminated so harshly, and which began in Franklin bat liitle over thirty years ago, had been fall of interest, noble purposes, and good achievements for men and for his country, such as had strongly attached to him his relatives and professional associates. Mr. Keene then read an obituary, printed in one of the New York papers, with the remarks of Mr. Beecher at the funeral services in the Astor Hoyse, and spoke of the current rumors relating to the painful cir- comstances of Mr. Richardson's death, and concluded with a declaration that Qod will see that the character of the deceased is vindi- 86 THE lllClIARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. cated, and that justice is done to his memory. The services closed with a prayer by Mr. Keene, in which he asked the removal of all wrong, justice for the good name of the de- parted, that the injured stand right before their fellowmen, and for Divine mercy for the man who raised his hand in vengeance, and that he might repeni of his crime and prepare for another life. After those present had looked upon the remains, the casket was closed and removed to the tomb in the bury- ing ground, where it is to remain until Spring, when it will be interred in the City Mill Cemetery, by that of tlie deceased wife of Mr. Richardson. We have thus brought Mr. Richardson, with his fatal afifection,to his last resting-place, in his native town. But this by no means ends the melancholy story. There is a world of dramatic incident and accessories belong- ing to it, a portion of which we now proceed to lay before our expectant readers. And the first of this portion of the strange story we will introduce, consists of the evidence taken on the trial of THE HABEAS COBPTJS CASE FOE THE FOS- ^SSIOK OF ONE OF M'FABLAlfD^S CHIL- DEEK. When Mrs. M'Farland left her husband, parly in 1867, she took her two children with her. One of these two children was in Massachusetts. The following evidence was taken in the hahecLS corpiLs case in the mat- ter of the boy Percy, wnich, two years ago, was brought about by Mr. M'Farland, for the possession of the child. It will be found of interest at the present time, it never hav- ing, till quite recently been published.' The Testimony was taken before J. B. Nones, Commissioner of Massachusetts for the State of New York : BICHAEDSOK LEAVES HIS AXITT STREET LODOIKOS. George H. Benedict, real estate broker, residing at No. 40 Washington Square, sworn — I recently removed from No. 61 Amity street, in New York city ;.l have known Mr. Richardson since November, 1866 ; he occu- pied one room in ray house, at No. 61 Amity street, from November, 1866, till January, 1867— early part-~vhen I think he removed to some other house in Amity street ; he did not leave my house nor cease to occupy his room at my request, nor have I any knowl- edge of my wife's making to him any such request. A LAHDLADT'S STOBT. Mary Mason sworn — I reside at No. 62 Amity street ; I know Mr. and Mrs. M'Far- land, and have known them, I thhik, about five or six months ; Mr. M'Farland has lodged at my house with his wife and child ; they came about the 6th of January, 1867, at No. 62 Amity street, and lived there until Mrs. M'Farland left her husband ; I knew Albert D. Richardson, and have known him four or five months ; Mr. and Mrs. M'Farland began to lodge at my house, No. 62 Amity street, about the 6th of January, 1867 — perhaps it might have been earlier ; they occupied only one room, the back parlor ; Richardson oc- cupied one parlor and closets ; I think he began about the middle of January, 1867; he never gave them up till after the shoot- ing affair, and then I requested him to va- cate the same, and he never lodged at my house after. Q. State whether or not, prior to the time when said Richardson hired rooms or a room of you, did you have or hear any conversa- tion with Mrs. M'Farland about Richardson, or about his taking a room in your house? if yes, state when you heard or had such conversation, and wjfiere and what was said by her ; also what was said to her ; be par- ticular and state all of said conversation as nearly as you can, and who took part in the same. A. Yes; she told me she had a friend boarding at the Astor House and lodging opposite to me in Amity street; that she wanted a room for him in my house, as he was obliged to leave his lodgings ; only Mrs. M'Farland and myself were present, I think, at this conversation ; Richardson then came in, the evening of the same day, I think, and spoke to me about a room ; he said that Mrs. M'Farland told him I'd let him a room in my house ; I objected to do so then, and the next morning Mrs. M'Farland spoke to me and urged me to put a drugget ovet my carpet to preserve it from injury of Richardson's clerk, and to then let it to Richardson, and I let him the room upon her urgent request. Q. Did you have any conversation with said Richardson during his residence in your house, when Mrs. M'Farland waa present, in regard to said rooms ? A. Yes ; she came with him to show the room, and we had all of us a CiMnvertatiou about the room. Q. Did you, while said Mr. and Mrs. M'Far- land occiipied or hired said rooms of you. notice or observe their manner towards each ^ther? A. I have observed their conduct ; his con- duct to her was particularly kind : her con- duct to him was equally so ; Mr. M'Farlard was very domestic ; he was never out of thi» house evenings ; he was constantly devoted to teaching his little boy Percy ; -1 never saw a father more devoted ; I never knew -him while he was at my house use any ihtoxieating drink. nor knew him to be addicted that way ; he never was under the influence of intoxicating drink to my knowledge while he occupied rooms in the house; he always treated his wife with great kindness ; iie was a perfect slave to her ; I had daily means of observing it ; I have seen him hold her arti^cial curls for her while she curled them, and also pick wild fowl for her on several occasions, and she told me that he would every night bring her beer to drink ; he wi^ perfectly wrapped up in his boy. THE EICHAKDSON-MoPARLAND TRAGEDY. 87 <%. Did yoa obBerre the habits and cur- toms of Mrs. MT^rland as to being at home daring^ the days or evenings while she and her husband lived with you ? A. She was frequently out at nights visit- ing, while Mr. M'Farland stayed at home teaching his boy ; she frequently went out with visiters of hers — her acquaintances; she always told me that her husband was very kina to her ; she left my house, as near as I can recollect, some two or three weeks before the shooting ; she sent me a message to say that she left my house because my daughters had the scarlet fever, and gave that as a reason for leaving. Q. Prior to her leaving did you hear her ■peak of her husband or of liis treatment of her? if yes, when, and what did she say ? state fully. A. I can only repeat what I have already stated ; she said he always treated her kindly ; Mr. M'Farland gave up the rooms he had occupied about the 2d of March last ; he told ine he expected Mrs. M'Farland back to her rooms at itiy house, she being then absent ; when he failed to induce lier to come back, he gave up the rooms ; Mrs. M'Farland came to the house two or three times soon after Mr. M'Farland gave up his rooms. Q. State fully what she said to you. A. Mrs. M'Farland came to my house in company with Miss Gilbert, and she stated to me that the young lady above referred to was engaged to be married to Mr. Albert D. Kiehardson ; she said she had been compelled to leave Mr. Sinclair's house on account of friends expected by Sinclair from Washing. ton, and wanted me to let her have the same room she had at my house for a few days, till her engagement would terminate ; I told her no, my husband wanted his rooms when home ; she subsequently came to ray house and wanted me to let her sleep in Mr. Rich- ardson's bed. and I told her promptly no ; I told her. thati my husband would leave the city "in a. few days, and then, if she was so badly off, I would let her come till her en- gagement at the theatre terminated, and she came back and stayed one or two nights before the shooting affair; she also stated to me that her husband's niece would always sleep with her, but she never came. Q. State whether or not at the time last inquired of Mrs. McFarland said anything about Mr. Richardson (A. D. Richardson) ; if yes. state fully all she said, and state the whole conversation fully and particularly. A. She deceived me then by telling me that A. D. Richardson would not be in the city for several days during her stay with me ; /but in defiance of that statement said Rich- ardsou catne to my house some time during the night, after I had retired; she stated tlie next day after she came that she had received a despatch from said Richardson, tliat he might be here by the midnight train, . and asked me not to look his room ; I can- not say who let him ia, as he had no night- . k«y, and ht sent :to me for one. the next morning ; that night the shooting occurred ; Mr. Richardson occupied a room in my house at the time ; Mrs. McFarland told me the morning she came back to let my rooms, in company with Miss Gilbert, that she (Mrs. McFarland) never intended to live with her husband again ; I told her I was aston- ished to hear that ; that I believed he loved her dearly, and she replied that she knew he did ; at the time I refused to let her a room ; she asked to occupy A. D. Richard- son's room, and I replied no ; Mr. Richardson was not at home, when Mrs. McFarland came to my house to engage a room ; he had left and told me he would not be home for a month ; he said he was going to Hartford, Ot. ; he must liave returned in the middle of the night ; she came in alone on the night of the shooting, and after it had occurred she came to the door in a carriage with some person or persons, but she alone came in ; she went to the desk, and raised the cover, and took therefrom several letters and other things, which she put in her pocket, and tried hard to prevent my seeing what she then did ; she also went into Rich- ardson's room and took his night-clothes ; took his demijohn to set handy for him, as she told me ; I offered her some of my hus- band's, but she declined, and left the house in the same carriage she came in. Q. State whether or not you ever saw in the room occupied by Mrs. McFarland, after her husband had left the room, a photograph of Mr. Richardson? A. Yes; J saw it in the bottom of Mrs. McFarland 's trunk ; I found it bent in a large open trunk, with articles thrown around it ; then Mrs. McFar- land and Miss Gilbert came in together to the room, and took possession of the picture and took it away. Q. State whether or not you know of said Richardson visiting Mrs. McFarland in her room at your liouse at any time while occu- pied by her, either while she so occupied them with her husband or afterwards ; and if so, how often, and at what hours of the day or night ? A. I do not know such fact ; he came there; he breakfasted with her in her room the morning of the shooting, and I saw him afterwards come out of her room ; I never knew of any trouble existing be- tween Mr. and Mrs. McFarland prior to the time she left her husband ; I never did hear her say anything but good of him, and that she did often. Q. Please state any other matters or things known to you which are material to the petitioner's case, as fully and particu- larly as if the same had been specially in- quired of. A I think that in the fore part of my testimony I said to certain interroga- tions, and at a certain time, that I had not seen Albert D. Richardson, but subsequently I recollect that I erred, and have stated the fact afterwards, that I did see him ; I now say that had I known of any disagreement among the parties, Richardson or Mrs. McFarland should never .havQ returned to 88 THE RIOHARDSON-MoFARLAND TRAGEDY. my house ; I before omitted to state what I now do, that Mrs. McFarland came to my house and went up to A. D. Richardson's room while he was absent at Hartford, as already stated, and took possession of his room for half a day, arranged all his papers and valuables, and took charge of his closet keys and bookcase keys, or his writing-desk, and went away with them ; the day that Mrs. McFarland took possession of Richard- son's room she brought the girl Gilbert with her; Richardson had lately, and sereral times even wjthin a week, called upon me unnecessarily and presented me with the last book he published ; he also saw Kate Stevenson, my domestic, and tried to in- fluence us both against McFarland, by say- ing that we must be careful as to what we swear to for McFarland as against him and Mrs. McFarland ; this must have been done to frighten us. WHAT A WAITEB 8AW AHD HEABD. William D. Norris, in answer to questions put to him, said: — I am in my sixteenth year, by occupation a waiter to Mr. Sinclair, at Croton, where I reside ; I have been so employed since the 2d of October, 1866 ; I know and have known Mr. Daniel McFar- land about seven months, and Mrs. McFar- land about the same length of time ; I have known Mr. Albert D. Richardson for about six months ; Mrs. McFarland came to Mr. Sinclair's, at No. 8 West "Washington Place, on Thursday afternoon after she had left her husband ; she stayed at the house about two weeks. Q. Before Mts. McFarland went back to 72 Amity street, did you see Richardson at Sinclair's house? A. Tes, sir, he came that evening: Q. How many times did you see him there 7 A. A good many times ; very often ; it was my business to attend the door bell at Mr. Sinclair's house ; I let Richardson m ever so many times, a good many times be- fore Mrs. McFarland went back to 72 Amity street, after Percy was taken away by Eliza. (Percy was taken away by Eliza Wilson, a servant p^rl, the day Mrs. McFarland came to Mr. Smclair's with him husband.) Q. Did Richardson inquire for anybody when you answered the bell and let him in ? A. Yes, sir ; he always inquired for Mrs. McFarland when I let him in. Q. How many times did he inquire for her during this time? A. A good many times ; too many to remember, a whole lot of times ; I know a boy by the name of Joseph, who was at this time employed by Richardson ; I knew him about six months. He brought letters to Mr. Sinclair's house to Mrs. McFarland after Percy went off with Eliza, and before she went back to 72 Amity street ; I think he brought five or six letters ; every time he brought letters he gave them to me, and I gave them to Mrs. McFarland ; she gave me an answer to after leaving her give Joseph to every letter he brought ; her answers were addressed to Mr. A. D. Rich* ardson ; while she was at the house, she and Mr. Richardson used to go out very often together, and they quite often came to the house together. Q. Did they come home in the evemnjp together daring that time, and, if so, at what time of night ? A. Yes, sir ; they did so late at night, after ten, near eleven o'clock, from the theatre. Q. State whether or not Mr. Richardson and Mrs. McFarland came to Mr. Sinclair's, and stopped there after she went back to 71 Amity street, and if yea, how long after? A. Yes, sir ; they then went back and stop- ped quite awhile, often ; when he cam* back he was shot; after this Mr. Richardson stayed at Mr. Sinclair's over a week ; he was in the back room, up stairs, while he stayed there; Mrs. McFarland came back to Mr. Sinclair's about two or three days after she had gone back to 72 Amity street ' Q. Did any one else corae to Mr. Sinclair'i to stop at the same time Mrs. McFarland did, and if yea, who was it ? A. Yes, sir, Mr. Richardson. Q. What room was Mrs. McFarland in while she stayed at Mr. Sinclair's at the tim that Mr. Richardson was stopping there ? A. Middle room, up stairs ; all open to Mr. Richardson's room : no doors in the room nor shutters ; when you are in one room yon are in the other one ; I call it all one room. Q. Where did Mr. Richardson and Mrs. McFarland spend their time during the time they were at Mr. Sinclair's together ? A. In the same room with Mr. Riditfd* son while he lay in bed wounded. Q. How much of the tune were they to- gether ? A. All the time I went up stain they mi together. Q. Where did Mr. Richardson have hk meals while he was at Mr. Sinclair's A. In his bed-room all the time. * Q. Who carried his meals to him ? A. Mrs. McFarland carried them to hin. Q. Where did Mrs. McFarland have her meals during this time ? A. In Mr. Richardson's room, along vilh him. Q. Who carried her meals to her ? A. She held the waiter on her lap, at hi» bedside, and they'd eat together. Q. Who took care of Mr. Richardson's room while he was at Mr. Sinclair's ? A. Mrs. McFarland made his bed, and arranged things in it, and cleaned up thfr room to make things look neat and tic^. Q. State all that you ever saw Mn. McFarland doing in and about Mr. Riohaid- son's room while he was confined to his bed f A. I saw her do a lot of things there-* making up the bed, dasting and pottins things in order, to mak« it look well sm decent while Mr. Richardson hud in the bed wounded ; saw them eat tog^Uier off ths same platies ; saw her carry up his moals sad THE RICHARDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. 89 lit by his bedside and hold water on her lap never to get married unless T was rich ; his for him near the middle of the bed ; I have wife replied, very gaily, that it was a morbid seen Mrs. McFarland throw her arms round state for a man to get into, and when I got JCr. Biihardson's neck and kiss him. married, to marry a woman like her ; I saw McFarland the day after his wife left him ; HOW THBKUSBAKD FELT ABOUT THE SSPA- it was about four o'clock in the afternoon, &4TI0K. and I remained with him about an hour ; he William 0. McFarland, nephew of Daniel was sitting in a rocking-chair, with his head McFarland, was examined, and said :— I between his hands, leaning on the table and saw Mrs. McFarland the next day after she crying like a child ; he said his wife had left her husband j this was the first time I ^^ft him, and furthermore stated that he had saw her after she left him ; I saw her again "^*^® some objections to Richardson dining in on the same evening that Mr. McFarland their room in his absence, and that his wife had an interview with herself, father and ^^^ 1?^* him on account of a little misunder- mother ; she s^d she was too proud a wo- standing they had had ; I said to him that I man to go back to a man after she had once thought Richardson had 'acted the part of a left him, and when I told her that she must vHlain, and had corrupted his wife and broken know that her husband loved her very much, ^P ^is family ; the day after she left him, I she said she knew that he thought the sun saw her, and told her she had kicked up a devil rose and set on her head ; at a second inter- of a row, as 1 expressed it — and that she view I told her that I hoped things would would ruin herself and children if she left be arranged satisfactory to both parties, and ^^^ husband ; she said to me that she had •he said her husband was to meet her that ^^d counsel from friends who were older evening, and they would settle it either one than I ; I urged her to go home and have way or the other ; I first heard Mrs. Mc- the thing kept quiet ; she told me before Farland complain, in regard to her condition this that she was exceedingly anxious to go in life, after she had been on the stage ; she on the stage, and that Mrs. Calhoun and said that all she wanted to make her an ele- Mirs. Sinclair, and others of her friends, gant woman and gather around her the elite were anxious to have her go on, and were as- of New York, was money. sisting her, but that her husband was not Q. What have you heard her say about wiping, that he opposed it, and even reading Horace Greeley, and others of her gentlemen ^ public, acquaintances t ^ A. She has spoken to me. at times, about BICHAEDSOK AJTD TO lETTEES TO XBS. Messrs. Greeley, Colfax and Richardson, and MoTAELAWD. thought that they admired her, and stated Albert D. Richardson sworn : — I know that she was copying for Greeley, over at the Abby S. McFarland, wife of Daniel McFar- Bible Bouse, ana that Greeley had sent her land ; I have known her since January, 1866. $100 ; she showed me letters quite frequently, Q. State whether or not between the 21st received from Greeley, which I could not read; day of February, 1867, and the 13th day of she has spoken to me about meeting Colfax March, 1867, you wrote her a letter or at dinner at Sinclair's, and has often spoken letters, and if yea how many, and where the to me about goi^ out with Richardson to same were written and how sent to her. A. see Julia Dean Hayne, the actress, or told I did write to her several notes and letters, me she was going ; she told me, moreover, can't say exactly how many ; should say that she thought Colfax thought a good deal from half a dozen to a dozen ; most of them of her — that's about all ; the night Mrs. were written in New York city, and some of McFarland returned home with me, after them in Hartford Connecticut; the New dining with Colfax, she made an apology for York letters and notes were sent by mes- keepinff me so long at the door ; she wanted sengers, and those from Hartford by mail ; I to see Mr. Colfax and ask him if he had re- did receive a number of notes and letters from ceived her letter of congratulation on being her, 1 should think not so many as I wrote elected Speaker the second time, saying that to her ; most of them I received in New she bad to see Mr. Colfax privately, as Mrs. York by messengers ; the rest in Hartford Sinclair might be jealous of the attention by mail; I cannot state more particularly ; 1 Eaidtoher; that was in 1866 ; when I drove have not any of them in my immediate er out in New York to meet Mr. Colfax, possession at the present time ; I may have Richardson, and Greeley, 1 don't remember two or three of them among my |>apers, whether it was in 1866 or 1865 ; I think it some of which are burned and stored in this was in 1865 ; she was always very affection- city, some in Hartford and some in Massa- ate toward McFarland before she went on chusetts ; it is my practice to tear up and tiie stage ; for the last two or three months throw in my waste basket or to bum all before she left him she seemed rather cool letters not important for business reference toward him ; I saw them together the mom- when answered, but sometimes when re- ing previous to her leaving him, at the room ceiving them at my desk, I put them away in Amity street, at about nine in the morn- among other papers, and it is my impression ing; McFarland seemed to be very much that some oiMrs. McFarland's letters and troubled, and spoke to mfi about woman's notes were thus put away, but I am not ingratitude to a poor man, and advised me positive ; 1 remember in a general way tear- 40 THE RICHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 111^ up and throwing in my waste basket fiome at my room in Amity street; I also burned seme at Hartford ; I can't state more jninutely ; I think I have ' never delivered any of them to anybody ; I am confident I have not ; the last I remember of seeing any of them I have already stated ; to the best .of my recollection I have never seen any of them since writing and sending them ; 1 do not know whether they were ever de- stroyed ; I don't remember that she ever told me in so many words of receiving any of them, though I presume she may have done so; she acknowledged the receipt of some by answering questions- they contained, And sending me books and manuscripts and other articles asked for in my notes ; I can- not state positively about dates, but 1 did -write lier some letters from Hartford during the early part of the month, and I think some of them were addressed iu Mr. Sin- clair's care, either at the Tribune office or his residence; the letters I wrote I either mailed or caused to be mailed ; it is impos- sible for me to state from memory the con- tents of any letter which I wrote three months ago ; as I have already answered I oannot state that I wrote her any letter on the day particularly mentioned ; sometimes my letters are sealed with wax and some- times not 1 if I have two or three letters of Mrs. McFarland's in my possession they are not easily available just now ; but if needful I will ascertain:, and if I have any will pro- duce them ; none of the letters written by me to Mrs. McFarland have ever again come into ray possession; on the 13th of March, 1867, 1 called in tliQ morning, about eight or nine o'clock, before going down town, and spent a few minutes with ^rs. McFarland and Miss Lillie Gilbert, and at three or four o'clock in the afternoon of that day, after coming home, went in a short time to &ee Mrs. McFarland: we had no conversation at either interview on the subject of our letters ; she said, nothing as to her having received a letter from me, mailed at Hartford on the Saturday previous ; I don't know who had the letter, or who now has it, but on the night of the 1 3th of March last, after McFarland . attempted to kill me, he said to me at the Mercer street station house, "I intercepted your letters,'* (i day or two later Samuel Sinclair told me that McFarland h&d shown him a letter which he (McFarland) claimed to have intercepted from myself to Mrs. McFarland, and since then, first and last, I have been told of McFarland's showing, reatiing or offering to read to a very large number of persons what he alleged to be a copy of said letter ; I don't remember that the date of the letter was ever mentioned to me ; on the morning after McFarland attempted to assassinate me I had a conversation with Mr. Sinclair on the subject of marriage with Mrs. McFarland; I stated that after the separation, with which Mr. Sinclair had been familiar in all its details, I had hoped that At some fiiture time the law and the circumstances would admit of our beiiur married. Q. Did Mrs. McFarland promise or agree to marry you ; if yea, when and wh#re ? A She never did, but she knew my feelings, which I expressed to Mr. Sinclair, and whf^ as I understand, she acquiesced in. Q. Did you ever have any convprsation with Samuel Bowles, of Springfield, Maso., in relation to said engagement of marriage; if yea, when and where ? A. I had a coit versatlon with Mr. Bowles at Hartford about the 1st of April last, and another at Spring* field a few days later, touching my relifttioiu with Mrs. McFarland. otherwise, no. Q. Did you not tell said Bowles that yon were or had entered into an engagement of marriage with Mrs. McFarland ; if yea, when and where ? A. Not exactly that; but at the first conversation referred to in my last an* swer, I gave Mr. Bowles a complete and truth- ful account of the affair, embracing the facts I have already stated as related to Mr. Sinclair, and some other details about the separation of which Mr. Bowles was ignorant; I told him that at the time, and after the separation my sympathies became very deeply enlisted for Mrs. McFarland, for whose charactiBr J had previously acquired the heartiest respect; that then and after- wards she WAS in a state of great nervous- ness and appreihcnsion ; that her nearest feminine friends were absent from the city, and therefore could not counsel or guide her; that if there was any fault or culpability in my relation and feelmg towards her, it was altogther mine, and not in any degree hers, and that I hoped that at some future time, after being legally free, she might become my wife, and had so spoken to her. WHAT MB. BINGLAIB HAD TO SAT. Samuel Sinclair, sworn : — I am a publisher by occupation, and reside at Croton, West- chester county. New York ; when Mr. Bich- ardson was wounded, and came to my house on the 13th of March, he occupied the second story back room, and Mrs. Mcf^arland oc- cupied mainly or most of the time the room adjoining : they were connected by two open- ings between said rooms ; there were no doors to these rooms ; she took her meal^ with him a portion of the time, and with my family » portion of the time; Mrs. McFarland spoke to me about going to the house in Amity street with Miss Gilbert; Mrs. Mason, the landlady, refused to admit them to Mr. Rich- ardson's room, when one of them said, " Will you not admit the sister of the young lady to whom Mr. Richardson is engaged?" Mrs. Mason then admitted them ; in tne conversa- tion With me, Mrs. McFarland said that their talk about the sister being engaged to Rich- ardson, etc., was a ruse to gain admission to his room; Mrs. McFarland said that she went there to tie up some papers which Richardson had told her, in a letter, he had left in a loose shape. Q. Did you ever have any conversation THE: EICHAJlDSON-MoPABLAND 'J'RAGEDT. ^di Mra, McFftduid ob to her being engage to be married to A. D. ItichardBOnf If yci ital« when, how often, who was present u Itie time, and all that was said in relation thereto T A. We had a converBation aboat it perhaps more Uian once; I remarked to < ber lliat many of her frienda thoug'ht it was "try imprudent and very strange tliat tlie riiauld enga^ hemelf to be married so soon ■Iter leaving her husband ; slie replied ttiat iIm thought herself free, having separated rmm her husband ; was present at en inter- liew between Mr. and Mrs. McFarland at JUT house on tlie Sunday evening after she lefl him ; he stated on her refusai tc return home with him, that she was taking a at«p tbit seriously concerned not only herself, bat her children; he finally said that if slie penisted in her determination, he would only M* and submit to it tlie best he could ; there >u no ai^eement for a separation fnrther ibm this. Q. Did you then hear Mrs. McFarland ciiarge her husband with any acts of violence loKsrds her T A. No, she charged that he *u subject to fits and violent paroiysma. never before heard of any trouble between %ra. or anything against Mr. McFarland. Q. State whether Richardson ever told you, or any one else, in your presence and in the iresence of Mra. BlcFarland, that lie and (Irs. McFarland were engaged to be mar- led ? A. He said to jue that they were en- rngcd to be married, but I am not positive hot Mrs. McFarland was present, thongh I }iiti1< she was, at the tipie ; this was in tlie veek lie was shot; ] think she was. (hen L fEVVAVT OIBL BILATX8 A TEW FAOTI. Kate Stevenson sworn : — I am a domestic n the dwelling of Mrs.' StW'MaSon, in Ami- X street; Biehardson.ustfd.tp, speod a.por- jos of biM- days in tiis room ; I don't recol- ectirh»t hours of iheid^y^Mrs. McP'aV''>i*' i(t«n lanched' in her room, end he luudiud nritli her, bet weep twelve and onje o'clock'; I inco aaw hira and her ]eave the house, and return together ;. the nii^lit of tlic shootiii;; a the street, she came.in ,a.Ga,rriage with a policeman and took away Mr. Riuhardson's uight^othes and a parcel of letters and Kpers that she tried hard not to have Mrs. uon sea, but she and I saw it all ; I hare iecn in MrB.McFarland's room a large pic- ture of Bichardson; Idid not hear anything about it, bnt one day I was in her room the sameficture lay on the bed ; her son, Percy. took it up and asked me if I knew it : I said yes, it was Bichardson; then Mrs. McFar- land smutched it up and locked it in her large trunk; McFarlana's condnct was never, tc my knowledge, eilhar violent or abusive to bis wife, ba.^ alirays .the reverse. I Alt DHIXPXCTED TIIIT. \ Kate McFarland, wife of George, sworn; — On the afternoon preceding the night of the affray between BIr. McFarland and Mr. Richardson, 1 called on tlie former ; I found Mr. Richardson in her company; on my coming they both seemed very much con- faBed ; he only remained there a few moments after I came in ; before leaving he said he hoped to meet her a;^ain before he left to- morrow; she replied that he certainly would if he came around to Mrs. Sinclair's. Q. How was Mrs. McFarland occupied when you entered the room T A, She was arranging her false curls in Mr. Richardson's presence. Q. Did Mrs. McFarland appear embarras- sed when you entered, and what indication did she giro of embarrassment? A. She did appear very much so ; she was so much em- barrassed that at first she could not speak to me, nor did she introduce me to him. Q. Did Mr. Richardson show any signs of embarrassment T A. He also showed aigns of embarrassment. After expending 82,000 Mr. McFarland succeeded in getting possession of his eldest son, Percy. In addition to the foregoing legal action, on March 13, 1868, Mr. McFarland coro- mencod an action in the Supreme Court in this city, against Bichardson, to recover $40.00*1 damages on the following grounds : For alienating Mrs. McFarland's affections from him ; second, for carnally knowing Mrs. McFarland and debauching her ; third, for inducing her to abandon her huaband and take np her residence with the defendant; fourth, for enticing the plaintitTs infant son, Percy S. McFarland, and abdocting him rrom his father's residence and concealing him from the plaintiff. The following Is the full transcript of the acousation on THE crriL son Foa dakaqes. , The following is the affidavit upon which the civil suit for damages tvaa commenced iu the Supreme Uourt of tliis State by McFar- land, and which was to have come up fur trial in ilanuarj' next ■ — SupTeme Cauii — City and Counli) of New York—Danid McFdrlana vs. Albert D. Jiichardaon. — Tlie complaint of the above Iiained plaintiff respectfnily showa that Abby 8. McFarland is tlie wife, of said plaintiff, ' and was at the time and times in aaid com- plaint hereinafter mentioned. That in the month of February, 1867, and at diver* times since and subsequent thereto, and while the said Abby S. McFarland was the wife of said plaintiff, the said defendant, as aaid plaintiff is informed and believes wrong- fully continuing and wickedly and iirgentfy intending to iiyure said plaintiff, and to de- prive him of the comfort, feltowship, society and assistance of the aaid wife, and to alien- 42 THE RICHARDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. ate and destroy her affection for him, did maliciously ana wickedly and without the consent of said plaintiff and well-knowing her to be the Yfife of said plaintiff, carnally knew her the wife of said plaintiff, and did debauch and have illicit and criminal inter- course with her, and did thereby alienate the love and affection of her from him, the said plaintiff; and by reason thereof he, the said plaintiff, hath thence hitherto been wholly deprived of the affection, comfort, fellowship, society, aid and assistance of his said wife in and about his domestic affairs and otherwise to which he was entitled, and would have had but for the wrongful act and acts of said defendant as aforesaid, and has moreover suf- fered great mental and bodily pain, distress and ilhiess to his damage of $15,000. Second — And for a second and further cause the said plaintiff says that in the said month of February, 1867, and at divers times prior thereto, and while she, the said Abby s. McFarland was the wife of him, the said plaintiff, and while, she and said plaintiff were living and cohabiting happily together, the said defendant, well-knowing her to be the wife of said plaintiff, wrongfully and im* properly contriving and wickedly and unjust- ly intending to injure said plaintiff, and to deprive him of the comfort, fellowship, so- ciety and assistance of his said wife, and to alienate and destroy her affection for him, did, by arguments, artifice and entreaty, maliciously endeavor to induce and prevail upon the said .Abby S. McFarland, the wife of him, the said plaintiff, to leave and abandon her home and residence, and the home and residence, of him, the said plaintiff, and did finally, to wit,. on or about the 21st day of said February, 1867, in pursuance of his long- planned and wicked intent, and by means of his said artifice, entreaty and persuasion, as aforesaid, accomplish his said designs, and did wickedly and maliciously and with like design and mtent as aforesaid entice her, the said wife, away from hev said home and the home of said plaintiff, then being in said city of New York, and did piersuade and in- duce her to leave her said home and resi- dence and to take up her abode elsewhere, at a place and places provided for her by said defendant, and did then and there with like design and intent as aforesaid harbor and de- tain her, and induce her to remain away from him, the said plaintiff, against the con- sent of said plaintiff and in opposition to his utmost peaceable efforts, and endeavor to obtain her from the custody, control and in- fluence of him, the said defendant. That by reason of said promises the said plain- tiff has been wrongfully deprived by said de- fendant of the comfort, society and assist- ance of his said wife, and has been subjected to great trouble and loss of time in endeav- oring to recover her from said defendant and has suffered greatly and distressfully in body and mind to his damage of $15,000. Third — And for a further and third cause of action the said plaintiff says that the said defendant, still further wrongfVilly contriving and wickedly and unjustly intending to in- jure the said plaintiff and to deprive him of the comfort, assistance, society and services of his infant son, Percy 8. McFarland, did, ) on said 21bt'day of February, 1867, wickedly and maliciously, and witliaut the consent or privity of said plaintiff, and well Imowing him to be the son of said plaintiff, fraudu- lently entice and prevail upon him, the said son, to leave and abandon the home and residence of him and of the said plaiutill^ then being in the city of New York, and did abduct and remove him therefrom, and did harbor and conceal the said son and cause him to be harbored and concealed away from said plaintiff, and by means of which * * * the plaintiff did incur and pay large sums of money in obtaining the release and return of said child, in all to the damage of $10,000. Therefore, by reason of the said several premises as aforesaid, the said plaintiff brings suit and demands judgment against said 'de- fendant for the sum of $40,000, with inter- est from the 21st day of February, 1867, be- sides the cost of this action. J. B. EL WOOD, plaintiff's Attorney. City and County of New York, ««:— Daniel McFarland being duly sworn deposes and says — ^That he is the above named plain- tiff; that he has heard the foregoing com- plaint read and knows the contents mereof^ and that the same is true of his own knowl- edge, except as to the matters therein stated on information and belief, and as to those matters he believes it to be true. DANIEL McFarland. Subscribed and sworn to before me, March 13, 1868.— FisHKB A. Baker, Notary Public Oity and County of New York. But other sections of this remarkable romance still crowd upon tu. Erery one has heard of THS IITDIAHA DIYOBOX recently obtained by Mrs. McFarland against her husband, but apptied for some time ago before an Indiana court; An Indiaaap(His correspondent of the Oinciimati Oommeraal, under date of Nov. 30, 1869, thus discoones on that interesting subject : ' '* Mrs. ' Abby Sage ' McFarland resided in this city more than a year. Upon her arrival, she presented letters of introdoctioi to the Hon. Albert G. Porter, of llie distin- guished law firm of Harrison, Fishback k Porter, and engaged his seryicea to procure a divorce from McFarland, her husband. The letters were from eminent citizens of New York, both ladies and gentlemen, and were entitled to a respectful consideratioD, which was greatly increased by Mrs. M^ Farland's dignified and modest demeanor, making only such complaint as would insure the success of her righteous cause. Bvi- dently, by the necessity for the step, it was remarked that she manifested neither anger nor vindictiveness towards her hnsband. FHB BICHABDSON-MoFABLAND TRAOEDT. 48 BPntlTEB EVXBBlTOIi ' ed, until Mrs. Calhoun's spirited evi- wras given in court, Mrs. McFisirland's *Y even had no idea of the extent of *ongs. That noble, talented woman, Jalhoun, of the 2!W&Mnc, came West 3ly to testify in Mrs. McParland's he- ld those who had the good fortune to ep will not soon forget her glowing id impressive manner, as she detailed ;er act of petty tyranny, and abuse >ul on the patt of McFarland towards nng wife he had promised to love and I. But I anticipate. Mrs. McFarland. interview with Mr. Porter, informed lat she was engaged in literary pur* ind about comniling a history of the States, for sonools, and would like vilege of access to the State Library, he took pleasure in obtaining her by ;o the State LibrariaiL. LODGINGS WITH YICS-PBESIDElTr COLFAZ'a MOTHES. next step was to procure lodgings in family of the hignest respectability, she enjoyed the society of Mr& PITS, mother of Vice-President Oolfax, Y the way, was a previous acquaint* id devoted friend. LITESABT LAB0B8. then opened a bank account with Mr. ey, through whom remittances from it publishers were regularly received, lid not amount to much, say from ten ity-five dollars at a time, but were all d to depend upon for support^and the ctive lawyer's fee. Some idea of her 'y may be gleaned from the fact that s a constant contributor to the Inde- if Riverside^ and other journals, be- rriting occasionally for the New York ic, and the Atlantic MoniMy, She nployed, also, as book critic by the \ Table, until that periodical was I into the New York Citizen, and the work very pleasant and lucrative. WHAT SHE WBOTE. was the author of those excellent , ** Westward to the Indies," and ward to the Indies," which appeared Tribune at the time of the completion Pacific Railroad. She wrote "The its of the Stage," which at once estab- her reputation as a writer. Her eflforts therto been confined to " Fairy Stories ildren," and ** Tales from Shakspeare e Old English Poets," but they were d by an exuberance of fancy, delicacy ethod, fully developed in " The Ham- r the Stage." Taking that paper, all for brilliancy, scholarship, and a cer- ,se, I may say, courtliness of expression, 16 very best of the year. It was truly ' the woman who can write that well e world before her where to choose." Being a woman, alas I no letter of the law can free her from persecution and misery. Mlie following is given as a specimen of her poetic talent : The San ha« set, and in the West, The moon floats like a silver thread ; The sky, the lovely Sninmer sky, Is flashed with golden and with red. We fttintl J see through sunset glow The glimmer of the evening star. While answering back the hues of sky The silent river gleame afar. T^i* flowers are shnt and bowed with dew. The trees stand hashed and tall and dim, As in the soft and tender Ught, Two ehildvea ^g their evening hymn. One irtnger's elostering locks are dark. And one has curls of golden hae ; One looks through black and flashing eyes, The other's eyes are sweetest bine. Then Joining hands in loving clasp, They mingle dark and golden hair, Al bending at their mothex*s knee. They each repeat an evening pmyer. On^ asks that o'er her little bed, The angels gentle w derous charges against her. SITOBCEB. The decree of divorce was granted abeal the 20th of October, and in less than one month has been followed by an almost fatal tragedy. I speak the sentiments of Mr9^ McFarland's friends in saying that the news was received with profound regret. BICHABD80K*S OHIVALRIO DEYOTIOH. Aside from the publicity so repugnant to her feelings, Mrs. McFarlahd must be tor- tured by conflicting emotions. Accepted lover or not, Mr. Richardson's chivalric devo- tion claims her unselfish regard, and she cannot forget him either who was once her husband, and is the father of her children. There is no word of sympathy which, in an hour like this, can be any consolation : bat if the wishes and prayers of her Western friends avail on High, she will yet find security and happiness. The foregoing correspondence was evidently written in a friendly spirit towards the lady in question : but we are no special partisans in this complicated story of tragic romance, and aim only to report it on all its sides. Here we give an episode in the life of MBS. HcFABLAKD-BICHABBSOV. One snowy afternoon in the winter of 1861, when a storm had taken possession of the good town of Hartford, two persons descended from the train which had lust arrived from New York. The snow fell in heavy flakes^ and the wind was bitter and keen; so bitter that the people who waited behind the counters of the long, uncouth depot fancied that they would reap a good harvest from the pockets of those who needed hot coffee and pies when the New York train came in. These two persons who descended from the platform of the rear car, were a man and woman, botli nearing the bridge which spans the prime of life and middle a^. The man was a tail, erect, fair-complexioned person THjJi RICHARDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. 4[> jr thirty years of age ; the woman was three years younger. The man was a ve looking fellow, with a steady eye, \ had a mixtare of blue and hazel in its s. He had ample whiskers, of a ginger and his carriage indica^.ed a life spent igli scenes on the plains, in the field of , and among the lone passages and canons of tlie ridges of mountains I serve as a spine for the body of the ican continent. The tall, whiskered was A. D. Richardson, now lying stark old in his grave. ; woman whom our readers have seen ing from the railroad train at the Hart- iepot was neatly dressed and warmly ^d. She was of tlie ordinary or medium t of woman ; fair-skinned, a Saxon a of the old Massachusetts stock, with 'eatures and spintuel, glowing eyes, leemed to expand as the smile deepened )r face, when her companion, in his calm way, offered her his arm and went the street. s woman was the wife of Daniel Me- nd, now lying in the Tombs Prison, charged with having pistolled Richard- » death in the Tribune office, some days In her old school-girl days, when all id bright and fair, the young, blooming veith the innocent expression on her md the intellectual light in her eyes, read Shakspeare by moonlight and ^son by the light of pine logs, in the ws of the Massachusetts hills, was 1 Abby Sage. I few minutes, the man and woman had "sed several streets through the beating and were at the door of the house ied by the American Publishing Com- t errand of the fair-faced woman was a large folio of manuscript to a pub- The errand of the tall, fair whiskered was to introduce her to a publisher, •y his influence, if possible, to get a aser fur her manuscript, jy walked back between long rows of fa, where thousands of huge octavos gilt backs laid reposing, waiting for ds of New England agents to introduce to the reading public, jre were three men in the back room, vas a man with white hair and white ers. His name was Belknap. The was a man in middle life. His name 31i8s, the managing man of the firm, third was younger, and wore black ers. with black eyes. He was a brother . Bliss. A fourth man dropped in — a • jolly sort of a person. This was the of the establishment, who did the cuts e books of the American Publishing any. Jlichardson said briefly, as he took a » • r. Bliss this is Mrs. Farland. She has sheets of manuscript which she wants '6 made into a book, I w<>ii]d like to have you examine them. I think they will sell among your customers.'' Mrs. McFarland took a seat, and unrolled a folio of manuscript **Is there any poetry in it?" said Bliss. "Poetry doesn't sell now. There's no market for it." '* I don't know ; you will have to examine the manuscript," said Mr. Richardson. "A good story will sell, I think," said; Mr. Belknap, *' if it is a good one. Let Mrs.. McFarland read some of her composition." ** There ought to be plenty of wood cuts to sell a book," said Cox, the artist. "Yes, pictures will sell a book when nothing else will," said Mr. Bliss with the. black whiskers. " The title that I think of taking for my book is, * Pebbles and Pearls/" said Mrs. McFarland, in a low, womanly, musical voice. "* Pebbles and Pearls?'" said Mr. Blissr with the sandy tuft, " hasn't that been done before ?" " I think not," said Mrs. McFarland. " It is at least original with me." "Well, let Mrs. McFarland read some extracts from her manuscript, and then w& shall be able to judge of its merit," said Mr. Belknap, who seemed to be the Chesterfield of the firm. Mrs. McFarland then unrolled the mann* script, and in a tone which delighted so many audiences in Jersey, read the first ex- tract on PAT» THS NEWS BOT. Here followed the manuscript extracts on that subject. "That wouldn't go bad with pictures," said Cox, the artist. •'Well, what do yon think about your book ? What is it worth?" said Mr. Bliss. " Let me read further," said Mrs. McFar- land. " I have a little poem which I would like you gentlemen to hear. Little Dan is Day hoy, and I have written this." LITTLE DAN. Having read this poem, the artist inter- rupted : " I can make a nice picture of Little Dan, I think." In this poem the lady lovingly described her child. " Have you any other nice short sketches?' said Mr. Belknap to Mrs. McFarland. The lady read a short fairy talc, with a singular charm in her voice. It was ahoat (< THE VOTAGEES." I^he reading of this manuscript being con eluded, the different members of the firm began to look at each other inquiringly, not knowing exactly what to aiiswer. Mrs. McFarland waited awhile with the manuscript in her hands, for she had children to support, and bread must be earned for tl.^eip somehow. Mr. Richardson sat quiet 46 ■IHE BICHABDSON-MoPARLAND TRAGEDY. And collected, with sympathy for the &ur authoress, Mr. Belknap finally said; " Will you be kind enongh to read some more, Mrs. McFarland V "Yea," Baid Mr. Blisa, Sr., "be kind enough to read some more of the poems, if yoa please, and then we shall be better able to decide upon the matter." Urs. McFarland then read two poems, the first being a loving description of her two children, described only as a mother could describe them, and headed IH TE£ TWUISHT. Hie second poem was calculated to in- terest those who hod dear ones at sea, and entitled tax a&iLOK's wnrz. " I gness wt II take that book," said Mr. Bliss, Sr., " and wi'll print it too. It's not bad." Mrs. McFarland wai satisfied, much relieved at the decision of the Ameri- can Publishing Company. The book sold well and it is understood that the lady realized about $500 as her share of the profits. In all theae short (ketches and poems, Mrs. McFarland-Richardson has shown s more than ordinary abiUly, and has exhibi- ted a peculiai descriptive talent and poetic fancy, which gives promise, when she re- covers from her present unfortunate position, of much better things. 1'his is a short sketch of what proved afterwards to be one of the most eventful periods of Mrs. McFarliind's, now Mrs. Bichardson's life. arimovB of tss fbxss oit tee xaiii quxBTioir. [JVm* Ue Sun.} The Astor House, in this city, scene, on Tuesday afternoon, of a which seems to us to set at defiance those sentiments respecting the relation of marriage, which regard it aa anything trinsically superior to prostitution, llie high priest of this occasion was Henry Ward Beecher, assisted by the Eev. Henry M. Field, D. D., and the Rev. 0. B. Froth- ingham. The parties were Albert D. Rich- •rdson, lying, wounded by a piatol-shot, upon a bed of iilness. and probably death, and Mrs. McFarland. alias Miss Sage, whom Richardson, some time ago, aednced from allegiance to her lawful wedded husband. This husband had been guilty of toward his wife — the crime of poverty. It was even said that, harrassed by the loss of h» property and the conduct of his wife, h« had Boraetiraea taken to his cups to drown care, and had occasionally been exasperateil to speak harshly to the partner of his bosom, although, on the other hand, no charge of adultery was ever made against him, and i1 ftppears to be uncontradicted that he was generally so devoted to her that his e^ ieeding conjugal affection attracted atten- ion and elicited frequent remarks from hii acquaintances. * • Who can read the nar- ive and not wif^h that Ptymonth church 'e sunk into the ground until the peak of gable should be beneath the aarface of the earth I And Mr. Beecher wag assisted by the Rev. Mr. Frothingham, who bli*- phemed in a prayer to God which contaioed these words : " Father, we thank lltee for what these two have been to each other, tui for what they may be yet, " close this year. But this loss tonchei Tribune more nearly than any late parting in the guild has done. For mai^ yean Ur. Richardson has been an honored and tilned t^aehe of this journal. " * • • • • A genial, robust, and singnlarly swwt nature, hemade an atmosphere of good-feUoi»- ship whererer he went. Generous to aiaolt ana often rash In judgment, ha hid a stanch and helpful loyalty about him, which charmed and held all men who knaw him well. It is not strange, therefor«, tint his illness turned toward him such a Sovl of kindness and sympathy as could ban Sowed to almost no other man under liiu- tar circumstances. Of those circumstances we do not nowifr tend to speak. But we take this oceaaioii to enter once more our most eolemu BrotMt against this murderous taking of IM Uv into his own hands by nnv assassin who MB skalk behind a door to snoot a braTCr ud better man than himself. **••*• If this murderer had any provocatida Ibr hia deed, we insist that it be known. We call for the most rigorous and searchhi| in- quiry. "We have no wish, as we have no E' ower, to prejudge the case. But there bii een more than enough of this buaiaeii of theatrical vengeance. When an eviHon- pered fellow finds that a plea of anapicion of his wife avails him to kill, on sight, UJ man who happens to be obnoxious to him, no man's life is safe for an hour. In thil coming trial it is not alone the State of New York against Daniel McFarland j it il civilization against barbarism. It ia (ba civil code against the code of the aasataia KB. B££CHSS'8 EXCVBB. [Mmfeic »/ t T-I We aiiproaolied the residence of the boW father and rang the door-bell, wag ushereil by a very neat, pretty servant-girl, into «w of the cosiest parlors in the world. In a moment Mr. Beecher ascended the stain from the dinnei-table, and politely oshettd us into Ilia study, back of the parlor, seated himself on an eusy-cliair, beside a cosy grata fire, and lieckoned us to a seat beaide a table, where luy books, papers, USS., and flowei^ THK RICH AEDSON-MoPABL AND TRAGEDY. 49 ?ant confusion. We opened the iation by comin]? directly to the point e, and the following dialogue en- )rter — Mr. Beecher. it is stated that re aware of all the facts^ of the Rich- •McFarland case before 'you united e Mr. Richardson to the wife of Mr. land. H. W. Beecher — I was under the sion that I knew all the material facts case at the time of the marriage in I officiated, and have no reason, up present time, to doubt either the or accuracy of my information or •priety of my conduct in the premises. )rter — Were you approached on the . by the friends of Mr. McFarland, or n receive your information wholly le friends of Mr. Richardson ? H. W. Beecher. — I was simply told >y parties who were respectable in )wn character, influential by their fi, and in whom I am in the habit of ►rter — May I ask their names ? H. W. Beecher — The parties to I refer were Horace Greeley, Mr. n, the Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, my the Rev. Henry M. Field of the ilist^ and others of a similar calibre, ►rter — May I aak the history of your tion with this affair? H. W. Beecher — It is very simple, requested to marry Mr. Richardson . McFarland by my intimate friend, •race Greeley. In order to girt his , as much weight as possible, and mable to call upon me, personally, he 3 his associate, Mrs. Calhoun, of the e, with a letter of introduction, en- : her to the fullest extent, and stating e was fully cognizant of all the facts jase. I listened to Mrs. Calhoun at- ly, and she not only assured me that 3hardson's conduct had been blame- ut that Mrs. McFarland was a woman less that it was almost mockery to ler — a devout, pure, good woman as eathed. She assured me that these ed each other dearly, and that there • reason, earthly or heavenly, that jvo should not be united, particularly he circumstances of the case, rter — What did Mrs. Calhoun mean *' circumstances of the case V* H. W. Beecher — I understood her r to the sad circumstances of the ', the dangerous condition of the d man, and the agony of mind I by Mrs. McFarland ; I knew that as great misery in the matter ; that as going to be ^et greater woe in the woe for all parties ; and I thought for me, as a minister of the gentle to administer such consolation as I to all concerned. rter — Do you not think that, perhaps siously to yourself, you acted on your 4 feelings rather than your Judgment in thif matter ? Rev. H. W. Beecher — I tried to combine both feeling and judgment. Reporter — May I ask how ? Rev. H. W. Beecher — I made an affreo- ment with the friends of Mr. Richardson. It was understood that if Mr. Richardson was likely to recover, I was not to be sent for, and no marriage between him and Mrs. McFarland was to take place. All was to be then left to time and future developments. But if it was medically pronounced that Mr. Richardson was to die, then I was to be sent for to solemnize the marriage between the afflicted parties. Reporter — But did yon believe the mar- riage solemnized by you to be, in all respects, leffal ? Kev. H. W. Beecher — Of course, I most solemnly did ; J do now. I have Mrs. Cal« houn's word for it that the lady had pro- cured a full divorce from her former husbantL Reporter — On what grounds ? Rev. H. W. Beecher — On various grounds i what I presume to have been sufficient, or the proper authorities would not have granted the divorce. Reporter — But adultery is the only ground on which the laws of the State of New York grant a divorce ; and as yet Mr. McFarland has not been accused of adultery. Rev. H. W. Beecher (with emphasis) — But he has been, though. It has been charged against him on various occasions. Reporter — But no papers were ever served upon Mr. McFarland. He never was made, as he should have been, a party to the di- vorce. It was conducted in secresy. Rev. H. W. Beecher (interrupting) — What you may say may be true. I know nothing about the matter, and believed the state- ments of my friends ; I do so still. Reporter — Did your friends assure yon that Mrs. Richardson's conduct was blame- less ? Rev. H. W. Beecher — They assured me so as fully and plainly as one human being could assure another. * Reporter — But do you not read the news- papers ? Rev. H. W. Beecher — Very seldom, and never anything in them that is sensational or horrid. Anything about love- scrapes or murders I strenuously avoid. They are not healthy. Reporter — But, my dear sir, how could Mr. Richardson's friends have told you that the relations of the parties were blameless when the testimony in the habeas corpus case, some two years ago, shows that Mr. Richardson and Mrs. McFarland occupied one rdom at 'one time ? Rev. \l, W. Beecher — I know nothing of the habeas corpus case to which you allude. Nor do I remember anything of what I hear- so much nDw-j-the first shooting of McFar- land and Richardson. In fact, all that I . remember is a dim sense that there was at <60 THE RICHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. Bomo time or other, some trouble or other between the parties ; but I, of course, did not for a moment weigh this dim, vague recollection of mine against the positive statement of responsible parties. Reporter — But Mr. McFarland states dis- tinctly that you were some time ago made aware of the existence of an intercepted let- ter — a letter of Mr. Richardson to Mrs. McFarland ; that you read this letter your- seJf. Rev. H.W. Beecher — ^I was made aware of the existence of this letter in this way. I wrote a complimentary letter to Mr. Rich- ardson on the publication of his clever little book, "Beyond the Mississippi;" and Mr. Camp, of the Tribune, told me that I ought not to write any letter of this kind to such a man. as he had written an improper letter t«» a man's wife (Mrs. McFarland). I then read the letter, saw that it was about love and ail that, and as I never read those things, and was not then particularly in- terested in Mr. Richardson, and as it had nothing to do with Mr. Richardson's charac- "ter. as an author or a patriot. I paid no attention to it at the time, and soon after- ward forgot all about it. Reporter — The whole matter appears to be as complicated as it is sad, Mr. Beecher. Rev. H. W. Beecher — It is a very sad affair. There has been terrible work some- where. I expected to be blown up by the press when I consented to act to please my old friend Greeley, and I have not been dis- appointed. I have got used to being blown up by this time. I don't mind it ; it rather agrees with me. And there has been a great deal of convenient malice in the news- paper attacks on me. They have been puffing the dead Richardson, and paying off old grudges over my shoulders. Reporter — What is your opinion of the principal actors in the Richardson tragedy ? Rev. H. W. Beecher — I have no opinion ; I know nothing about them ; I have never seen McFarland ; do not remember seeing Richardson until he was dying ; never met ^Irs. McFarland till the tragedy. But, sir, though I still believe in the innocence of Albert D. Richardson, and in the integrity of my own course in the matter, 1 do not hesitate to say that all parties concerned hnve acted imprudently, imprudently, most IMPRUDENTLY; but as for myself, if I have made a mistake. I will acknowledge it wlieii it is proved that I have made it. Good night. And the interview was over. BEY. MB. FBOTHIKGHAM'S DEFENCE. Rev. 0. B. Frothingham, from his pulpit on Sunday last, referring to the part that he and Mr. Beecher had taken in the marriage of Mr. Richardson, said he had nothing to say to the newspapers that had abused him, but to his congregation— his friends — an ex- planation was due. Albert D. Richardson was a member of his congregation, and, as became him as pastor, he tendered him Ills sympathy and condolence. On Tuesday morning last he received a note conveying a request to attend Mr. Richardson, and on going there he learned that the counsel of the dying man — a manhonored and eminent in his profession — had advised that the marriage should take place. He had been assured that a divorce had been obtaiDed \ regularly and properly, and deeming it hii duty to perform tne ceremony, he did eo, his conscience telling him that he had acted as became him, under the circnmstancei, both as a man and a minister. In conclu- sion, he counselled charity toward the dead, charity to the accused assassin, and charity for the stricken woman. WHAT THE BBOTHEB OP HOL. MeFABLAIB SAYS. [From the Evtning .BtyniMic.] Reporter — What are the exact facts il to the alleged poverty of your brother eon- pelling his wife to read in public, and take to the stage ? Mr. McFarland — It's all an invention. Ify brother was always able to support his wife Entirely coonfortably. She went rMding lost to get a chance to paint her face, past for a beauty, and get in with that free4o?e tribe at Sam Sinclair's. Dan always opposed her going out in public. He opposed it gently, however, because he never could say no to her, and she was so bent on it. Her allegations that she had to aupport her children and her husband were not true. Reporter — Was your brother cruel or not to his wife ? Mr. McFarland (with emphasiB^ — ^Nothing of the kind, sir^ nothing of the kind. Tbej were always so aweet on ope another that U disgusted their friends, and me too. It wh always, " My love, what will you have T" and '* My darling, I would like to have this," and *' Pussy, hand me that," aJl the lime. He was and is the tenderest man in hii treatment of his wife I ever saw. Kvei now he loves her, does not blame her, thongh 1 do, but puts it all on Richardson. Reporter — How did these stories and how did this infatuation for Richardson come about. Mr. McFarland — It was all along of those Gilbert girls (one of them is a Callioun now), and of the free-love tribe at Sam Sinclair's house. They got around her, and we hsTO got letters to show that the Gilbert girls acted for Richardson in his getting around Dan's wife. When Mrs. McFarland went off with the children, we have found out that ha paid Sam Sinclair's servant-girl $25 to get a carriage round in a back street and driTi them to the Boston depot. Reporter — How alTout the Sage family'i opinion of 3»our brother ? Mr. McFarland — Right after the first shooting two years and more ago, Abby'i mother, Mrs. Sage, threw her arms around Dan's neck, and said : " 0. Dan I you were THE BICHABDSON-McFABLAND TRAGEDY. 51 riffht. Yon always treated Abby r, and I love you better tlian one of my children." Since then, however, cording to the present style of judging him by public writers he had only made fow or five mistakes in his life. He was one of those men who, when a cause appealed to kit sympathy aud to his heart, he was drawn almost irresistibly to it. From the very manner in which Mrs.. Calhoun presented the matter to him it seemed to him that he wai needed to defend the cause of the weak against the strongf There was something to be done that risked a great amount of unpopularity, and that required that some one strong enough to bear it should throw himself into the breach. Such a cause, such an appeal, and such a state of circumstancea raised within him all that appeals to that which is combative and tender within him. His idea of a minister was not a man who had never had a spot on his coUar, a spot oa his cufis or upon his bosom. He exported to come out of this fight muddy and spotted, lie thought he had a heart like bis great Master, and feeling, like that he had not felt guilty in what he had done. Knowing what he had done in the question, he now aalsed himself, would he do it; again? In answer to that, as the Dutchman once said, ** II my foresight was as good as my hindsight I should do a good many things better than I do." Mr. Beecher then said he did not wiaU his church to apologize for their pantorsa having done a wrong thing. If they did not agree with him in tliis matter let Uiem rise and say so. Mr. Beecher then sat down, after which there were general expressions of sorrow and regret very kindly and gently put before the audience by prominent members of the church that Mr. Beecher had placed himself in the false position he had. Amid it alU however, there seemed to be a general feel- ing and expression of forgiveness. Mr. Beecher again rose and: said tlutA he THB BICHARDSON-McFAULAND TBAOBDY. 65 was able to stand np for himself, if there was any occasion for him to come out and de- clare himself more than he liad already done. Symptoms of impatience began to develop themselves on the part of the audience, amid which the announcement was made that the annual business meeting would take place at the conclusion of the service. The bene- diction was then pronounced and all tiiose who were not members retired. We have, in the preceding pages, given to our readers the whole of the particulars of this unfortunate affair, from ita commencA- ment in 1867 to its sad termination in L869. Biehardson is dead. He has paid the penalty of hia folly, there we are content to let him rest with as little oomment as possible. There can be now no 'doubt of his guilty eoonections with Mrs. McFarland, he is sinply A hypocrite or worse who dispates.it. HcFarlsmd is now lying in his prison await» ing his triti before a jury of his couiitrymen< ibr a charge of assassination, committed, no ^bt. whilst nuder the influence of tempo- rary insanity. We cannot think that a man possessed of such talents as he, would, whilst tti hie-right mind, wantonly take the life of his feUow creature; His love for his wife UBS intenae, and often has the writer of this heard him, when speaking of her, quote the bttewing. passages from Othello : •* For know laflro B«t that T loTe the mnilo DMitdemoaa, I wooIA nol my anhoaitMl free conditiom Pat iato eiroamrtoriptioa aad eooAna Tor the eea'e worth.*' OCteu,- also, has he said: «* She hath been Mf pondered thought bj dwy, ny dream hj nif ht, Mj- praf er, mj vow, mj offertag:, mj praiae, Mf aweet eempanloa.*' His love muBt now be turned to anguish, and he is now more an object of pity than of eeom. At last dtiipen to firtnzj by- the loss of his more than life, and by the contemplation of his wift, the motherof his children, reposing in the arms of her seducer, he shot that ses- dnoer — who was armed at'the time to receive him. We use the word seducer in its exact sense; we mean the man who led this woman from herself; for he who crawls, like the serpent in Eden, into a household and es- tranges from a husband the affections of a wife,- is equally her seducer, whether he him- self has marital relations with her before or after a mock religious ceremony. As the great and eloquent John Whipple said : *' He who enters the dwelling or a friend, and under the shelter and protection of friend- ship and hospitality, corrupts the integrity of hie wife or daughter, by the common con- sent of mankind, ought to be consigned to an hnmediate gallows." An easily misguided woman, led on by Bichardson, and cheered and encouraged by his Free-love allies, this mfe and mother re- lorted to Indiana, where, forgetting her early plighted faith, by the loose and easy process there in vogue, she procured a legal divorce. " with hold irreverent brow. And louite.fren etep, her perilous waj «he trod, Downward and on till iihe denied her God, And broke the marriage vow/* For had she not vowed to take McFarland for her husband, for better, for worse, until death — nothing else — should part them ? But it is said that her husband was poor, and sometimes harsh I And so the Bev. Henry Ward Beecher comes and marries her to another man, to wit, this man Rich- ardson. If it be said that poverty was not the only crime of McFarland»then rest easy, hui^ bands and (Sathers, at least all of you who never, in any moment of trial and vexation, have ottered one impatient or petulant word* For our part we stand up for the mainte- nance of law and order. We don't believe in any man's right to take the law into his own handSi And yet there are cases in- which the law cannot possibly afford atone- ment for private wrongs. It is easy enough for us- to reason, with our hearts unwrung, in the most philosophir oal manner. But outrage our feelings — sting ua to the quick — tear the very heart, as it w«rei out of our bosoms — ^make a sudden Fandemoniua of our domestic Paradise with its Bve gone off in a friend's embrace— and what becomes of our philosophy t ** Who eteale mf pnrea etealn traah ; *H« tonethteg, nethinf, *Twak laine, 'tU hia. and has beeiL elaTO to tbonsanda." but he who steals away your wife's aflbo* tions first, and then her person, robs yon of what was yours and yours only — robs you of all you hold precious — next to life IXbpIL And the law I — yes, the indulgent law — per* mits you to vindictively pursue the wretch and — sue him for the value of her clothes 1 It is good, it is wise, it is noble, to talk of the ** vengeance of the law" to a man whose radiant home has been polluted, whose happy^ hearth has- been abased, whose bleeding heart has been oast out into the moral gutter to be trampled and spit upon by dogs. It is a lovely thing to talK to him of money as a cement for his' broken happiness ; of " danu ages" to enable him to bridge over the fEMthomless depths of misery into which his aching eyes gaae whenever he thinks of bis stolen treasure. But, after all, we would shoot down impromptu the heartless liber* tine who had so fully wr Oraham. — Could not explain how it was that he did not summon assistance ; perhaps it was from his excitement ; did not see McFarland enter the office. The other witnesses exammed were T>aniel Frohman, advertising clerk of the Trtbune, Edwin iT. Carver, an employ^ of the Tribunet Capt. Allaire, who arrested the prisoner, and Dr. Swan, who first dressed Richardson's wound. The testimony was important only in establishing the shooting and death of Mr. Richardson, and the prosecution here an« nounced that they would rest. The case was then adiourned till Friday. At the opening of the Court on Friday morning, Mr. Charles S. Spencer opened the case for the defence. He alluded to the action of the District Attorney in calling to his aid Judge Davis, as a proof of the weakness of his course, say- ing that he (Judge Davis) " might much bet- ter be in his place in the halls of Congress, representing nis constituents, and earning the money of the people which is being paid to him for every hour that he is passing here, taking part in the discussion of those great questions which are agitating Congress, in- stead of staying here for a few miserable dol- lars, to compel this man to follow in the foot- steps of the miserable murderer that within an hour of the time 1 am addressing you upon the scaffold has gone from tim*e to eter- nity." ♦ Ue stated that their defence would be: At the time Albert Z>. Richardson was pis* toled by Daniel McFarland, Daniel McFar^ land uias not responsible for hia actifin either in the eye of Ooa or by the laws of nuin. He then proceeded to give a history of the case as seen from the side of the defence, claiming that Richardson, with the help of others, had won McFarland's wife away from him after he had done all and more than one in his circumstances could have been expected to do to render her happy. He closed as fol- lows : And now it is the 25th of November, half an hour before the homicide. An old friend, a member of the bar, meets him-in the street, takes hold of his hand, and asks him, ** What's the matter with you, Mac ? You look dou- bled-up and queer. Go home." In the air he still sees the semblance of Richardson and his wife ; the hand of fate beckoned him, and he went into the Tribune office. He saw two eyes glancing upon him. and from that moment he recollected nothing else. He was arrested, and told that Rich- ardson was shot, and he exclaimed: **My God ! it must have been me." There was but one thing now left to complete this in- famy. A woman clothed with a fiimsy vail pf^a fraudulent divorce is inariied to this opium-drugged and 'dying man, and while angels wept and devils langhed, a man named Frothingham pronounced the benediction, and said ; " We thank Thee, Lord, for what these two have been to one another." Did this servant of God forget what was * Sylvester Breeo, better known • as Jbck Reynolds, the murdftrer of William Townsend, who was hanged to-day In the Tombs Prison yard. The «xecutk>n was cottduoted quietly, and ¥dtDes8ed by about three hundred peoplo. 68 THE RICHARDSON-MoFARLAND TRAGEDY. written by the finger of God on the tables of stone amid the thunders of Sinai ? — **Thou shalt not commit adultery." A proof that McFarland was insane at the time he com- mitted the deed was that he had often met Richardson before and not taken his life. It was not his (counsel's) intention to discuss the several forms of insanity. He had told them a plain story of facts, facts of which the iury were to judge. The aefendant sat with his little boy await- ing their verdict. He no longer loves hi9 wife, but a sacred memory of what she was lingers with him still. He can never expect to be happy again. The sunny smile of a pure wife, the chubby face of a beloved child, may smile upon him in his dreams, but he will wake to the knowledge that in this world for him there will be no more happiness. All good and virtuous men and women wish for the acquittal of the prisoner, and he asked the jury, as they loved their wives^ as they valued the purity of their daughters and sisters, and as they honored the gray hairs of their mothers to stand by tne de» fendant and build up an impregnable wall around the virtue of every home. Let the verdict tell here in our city that upon the felon fools teps of thosd who prostitute our sisters, and mothers, and wives, shall surely follow with avenging tread andi stern resolve the relentless fury of an avenging Nemesis. The fir^t witness called waa James McFar- land, brother of the prisoner. His testimony was unimportant. The next witnesses were Lillie Grau, in whose mother's house the prisoner roomed, and Anna Bums of Boston. George A. 8immone, an officer of Blackwell's Island, was called to prove that Francis McFarland, a first cousin of Daniel, had been confined t^ere as a lunatic. Dr. Morris, who attended him in his illness, considered his trouble caused by softening of the brain. After the examination of a few more unim- portant witnesses, the prisoner's counsel read to the iury the following letter. It is a copy of the letter which accidentally fell into McFarland's hands, having been written three or four weeks after the final separation of Mr. and Mrs. McFarland : THAT LBTTBB! " March 9, 4-50 p. m. " I received two hours ago yours of yester- day. " At noon I mailed you the Attantie for March to No. 72. This 1 send in care of Mr. S., hoping that yoxx may get it to-morrow. "Don't be disturbed about your family, little girl. Families always respect accom- plished feusts (my hobby, you know). I once outraged mine a great deal worse than you ever can yoiYrs, and they are the strictest sect of Puritans, but time made it all cor- rect. " So you couldn't go to Mrs. M.'s till Mon- day, and couldn't have my room. Be patient, little girl, and you shall have to give, not take, orders about my room. r " Funny about Lillie and the young lady I am engaged to ! It only confirms my theory that you and Mollie are first-class intriguers. ' " Will order your scrap-book on Monday. " Learn all you can about the material and contents of the new book within the next few weeks, for we may want .to announce it in my book. Please remember that it ought to have plenty of humor, and that it must have some horrors. If you reeoil fcom them, you shall not do them. " Darling, I smiled at my being pining and hurt. Why, I am like a man who haa got rid of his elephant. I weig^h 258, and am lighter-heartea than I have been for years. Indeed, I feel as if a weight had been lifted from me where before your sweet love came to sweeten and bless my life. All the trouble was that die thought she eoold not let me go. Long ago, when she and I first came together, I sud to her we wilL make no^vows to love each; other always; Of* that we eaa- net tell. *^ I will only exact that ymi will tell me the perfect truth, whether it keeps us togsther or separates us, -and she replieid : ' Gm help- ing me, I will.' 8he tried to, but.the leopan could not change its. spots, and she did the best, and was very tender and loving, and I hare nothing in the world to complain at If you had not come to me, Uttle girl, ifc would have made no difference then: tliit scene was ended long ago. It will rather startle Mrs. S., won't it? I think she will like it in the end. " Rose's letter is very grave and kind, tad I am now very glad you go, for it will do yon much good. It is a gpreat, breesy, restfol place. "What a goosie it is about * my coining home. Of course I shall come whenever my business compels, or will let me.* What judgment shall you fear, doing no wrong f The circumstances make it right and n- noticeable, and I will not stay away for forty thousand Mrs. Omndys. I will not neglect work to come next week. I have not been waiting for yon, darling, all these long yetrs to wear hair-cloth and serve seven years. Now I want yon always. A hundred tiniM a day my arms seem to stretch out towiid you. " I never seek my pillow without wanting to fold you in mv arms for a good-night kin and blessing, and the few months before yon can openly be mine will be long enough at best. No grass shall grow under my feet) but I never let public opinion bully me a bit, and never mean to. Bo, sunbeam, I shall come whenever I can, and stay as long as business will permit.- I will decide abont the Summer just as soon as I can, darlin|^; can probably surmise by Monday or Tuesday. " Darling, I should be afraid ifjfov had fascinated me in a day or week. Tlie trees which grow in an hour have bo deep root Ours I believe to be no love of a noonday hour, but for all time. Only one love ever fgnm so THE RICHARDSON-MoFABLAND TRAGEDY. 69 ilowly into my heart as yours has, and that wa^ BO tender and blessed that heaven needed and took it. "My Darling, you are all I would hare you —-exactly what I would have you in mmd, body and estate ; and my tired neart finds in yoQ infinite rest, and richness, and sweetness. Qood night, my love, my own, my wife. "Burn this, will you not?" The Court then adjourned to Monday at 11 A. X. The evidence on Monday was uninterest- ing, its only object being to establish the in- sanity of the prisoner. The seventn day of theMcFarland trial at- tracted an immense crowd, although fewer succeeded in gaining admission than on the previous day, eflScient arrangements having ma made to exclude all who had no special bnsiness there. Enough were present, how- efer, to fill all the seats. Several ladies were among the number. Mr. McFarland arrived at an early hour, and was soon after- ward joined by his little boy Percy, who has been present every day since the commence- ment of the trial. Seven witnesses were examined, among them three physicians, their testimony going to show that McFarland was laboring under great mental excitement before the shooting occurred. John B. El wood was then called to the stand. Q. What is your profession ? A. Attor- ney-at-law. Q. In this city ? A. Yes, sir. S. Do you know McFarland? A. Quite ; since the fall of 1867. Q. Do you remember when you last saw him previous to this occurrence? A. The Monday or Tuesday preceding ; the ^d or 23d of November. Q. Where did you see him ? A. At my office. Q. Describe his appearance. A. He ap- peared as I had frequently seen him — quite excited about this matter ; I had a short con- Tersation with him ; his manner always on speaking of his domestic matters, as he would continue in conversation, grew furious. His excitement would increase till it finally culmfnated in a state of frenzy. Q. Did you then have any conversation witli him ? A. I presume I had, but he was in my office so often, 1 can't distino:uish now between one conversation and another. Q. What was the subject of the conversa- tion? A. He always spoke of the one — his &mily ; it was the thenae on which his mind woula run. Q. Did he say anything about the divorce of his wife — had he heard of it ? A. He told me slie was endeavoring to get a divorce ; he had not heard of it when I last saw him, I think. • Q. Did his manner impress you as to rationality or irrationality? A. I cannot say I discovered any evidence of insanity upon any subject but that of his family troubles ; on these he would get Into a mono- maniacal state, certainly. Q. Would it culminate in tears ? A. Y«s, sir. ' Q. And then. A. When he came to speak of Richardson, he would become frenzied, often uncontrollable ; he evinced great feeling for his wife and children. Q. By whom was he first introduced to you ? A. By Mr. LeBarron. Q. When? A. In 1867. Q. Did he call to see you professionally ? A. Yes. Q. Relative to his habeas corpus suit ? A. Nt) ; in regard to commencing a suit against Richardson. Q. What was the nature of that action — how many counts had it ? A. Three, sir. Q. What were they ? A. First, for crimi- nal conversation with his wife ; second, for abducting his wife ; and, third, for abducting his infant son Danny. Q. State what conversation you had with him. A. He told me the history of his troubles — the manner in which he and his wife had lived together, which he said was always pleasant. Q. This was in August, 1867 ? A. Yes ; he said they were exceedingly fond of each other — never separated without her kissing him as he went out ; how, in the evening, they would walk together in the garden pick- ing fiowers ; he said even the servants had observed how happfly they lived together ; he said they ailways addressed each other as "My darling" and my** My dear." Q. What did he say about her leaving him ? A. He said it was after Richardson had become acquainted with them, and that he had been the means of getting her away by his machinations ; he told me the manner in which Danny was taken from him — how his wife kissed him in the morning with her arms around his neck, and how, when he came back, he found the child was taken away. Q. Did you hear him in the Fall of 1869 express his determination to get back his boy Danny ? A. He often spoke of it ; he told me he had been to Jersey watching for his child, stopped at a neighboring house, and was trying to get the boy if he could ; this was in August or September, 1869 ; I do not remember the name of the house he was watching. Q. Do you remember his showing you these letters and saying where he got them ? [Eleven letters were here shown tlie witness, and identified by him as letters previously shown him by McFarland.] A. Yes, he said in his wife's trunk; he was much ex- cited about them. Cross-examination — Q. You say you first saw the prisoner in 1867 ? A. Yes. Q. How long after that was it you saw the letters ? A. A very few days after. Q. Was he on this occasion as much ex- cited as usual ? A. He was furiously indig- nant, though I have seen him when he ex hibited more rage; 60 THE RIOHABDSON-MoFABLAND TRAGEDY. Q. Were you acquainted with Eichard- Bon? A. No. Q. Did you ever see him 7 A. No. Q. Had yon any acquaintahce with Mrs. McFarland? A. Not that I know of. Q. Who were the attorneys on the other side? A. Bangs appeared oa the record.; John Sedgwick is a member of the same firra. . Q. Do you recollect how much was claimed on the bill of damages ? A. Forty thousand dollars. Re-dircct. — Q. In the conversations pre- vious to the suit or after it. did he say any- thing about his motives in bringing it ? A. He said he wanted the thing told right, set right before the public; he said that as to the idea of his accepting money to settle the suit, he could not think of it ; he desired me to write and ascertain from every county in the State whether his wife had applied for a divorce. Re-cross-examination. — Q. Was there ever any talk about settling this suit? A. He came in and told me one day that he had re« ceived an offer from Mr. Cleveland of $10,000, and a consulship to Ireland, if he would drop the suit. Q. What did he say about it? A. He said he wouldn't take it Q. Did you ever receive an offer of that nature ? A. Yes, sir. Q. When ? A. I once had a very general proposition from Mr. Sedgwick. Q. Did you ever make any offer? A. Never. LBTTEB FBOX MRS. SAMUEL SIHOLAIB TO MBS. MoFARLAKD. At this point Mr. Gerry read the following letter from Mrs. Sinclair to Mrs. McFarland, marked Exhibit "A:" "Warhinoton, Feb, 21st. *' My Dearest Friend : Mrs. C. read your letter to me this morning, and I am almost heart-broken for you. My dear, what are you going to do ? W hatcver you decide upon, i of course your friend — your true friend, will accept. But I do hope you will act with firmness and decision. It seems to me that that one great effort is only a question of time, and the sooner it is made the better for you and your children. Do not for one mo- ment longer entertain that morbid idea that you are responsible for the life of one who is sure to break you down completely, and ruin perhaps your children if they contmue to live with him. It will kill you to live this way, and you must not do it. Those dear little boys must be taken care of, and who can do it but their own dear mother. ** My dear Abby — 1 love you like a sister, or I should not write this. Anything that I can do for you I will, cheerfully. Do not despair. You have health, youth, and good friends — and all your friends, without an exception, will support you. I have no doubt of your success on the stage: but should you find that too trying for your health, you can do , equally well by writing. I think you arc very modest in your own estimation. I think you write better than almost any one I know, and should you give your time to it, I have no doubt of your exceeding any American female writer in a very short time. ** I must suggest one thing, and that is to get Percy away from his father as soon as possible. You know Percy now believes in him, and the longer he remains with him the more intensified will this feeling become, and of course the longer it will take to erase it. '*It seems a long time since I left yoo, and I am quite ashamed of not having written to you before, but my time has been wonder- fully filled with Washington gayety, and I am very apt, as you know, to neglect writing to my friends when I feel certain that all a well. I have not been jealous, although yon have written to Mrs. C. several times. I love her too much not to be willing to give her more than half of what I would receive. Is she not good and charming ? How is dear little Danny ? I wish he could eome to Mary's birthday, the 9th of March. Yon cannot come and bring Percy ? We may not be home before the tith, but I don't dare write that home. Bemember that Fear is your friend. I hope you will not neglect her m my absence. Now, my darling, do write soon. I shall hope for something definite. Your devoted friend, c. a. s." This was followed by Exhibit " G," which was a letter from Mrs. Calhoun to Mrs. McFarland : MBS. CALEOTJN TO MBS. McFABLAlTD. " Friday Mornino, Fd). 23. "Mt Darling Child : What can I say to comfort thee? My heart bleeds over tnee. Would I could enfold thee forever more. Uj darling, if it were not for Percy, I shoald take thee away and keep thee, as soon as I go home. I do not suppose Mr. C. would let me keep him. My precious, you mtut make your decision. It is profanation for yea to stay with that man. You shall not No woman ought to put her womanhood to open shame, as you have been forced to do for years. It is most cruel, most devilish. Yea cannot work, you cannot advance, yoa can make certain of no future for yourself andtl^ children while you stay. There is no justice, no reason, no hope in your doing it. My darling, you will leave him scatheless— the world is more generous than we think about these things. Every thoughtful man or woman will justify you, and you can shake off the shackles, and work with free hand^ It is dreadful to have you fight against aach odds. I think you could live, yourself and Percy, for what you earn now, and if you cau only be free, so that you can improve, your salary will be increased. It is wonderfnl that you have been able to do anything with your disabilities, and I do think that now you may do so much. 0, do leave him, my dar- ling. It is so wrong that you should stay with him. THK BIOHARDSON-McFABLAND TRAGEDY. 61 " Fridat Evening. — My darling, we have Just received Mr. R's letter. I am bo glad that you have left M— ' — . Do not, I beseech yoa, return. Do not let any meekness of mercy possess you. It is happy that the Btrjoke has fallen, no matter what heart- break come with it. I could be glad that you suffer, if your suffering could keep you awav from him. My darling, for whom I would die, do not so wrong your womanhood as to go back. You mtui not, ehcUl not. When I come back yon shall come straight to me and $tay, I will have it so. 1 will come to-morrow if you need me. Write me, my darling — all things. Even if you are distracted, write ; it will calm you and help Joo. All my heart flows to you. 1 would elp you, guard you, heal you. if I could. My darling, you cannot be misunderstood. I, a proud woman, tell you that only by leav- ing him can you justify yourself lo your- self—and to the world of noble people. My darling, my money and purse and roof are yours forever ; you will not hesitate to come to me for you love me. Thie is a poor note. I have had to scrawl in pencil what I have not had time to say in ink — to-morrow, when if you're better, I shall write you a better letter. All my heart is yours. Let Mr;.B. help yon. tie is good and strong. Stay where you are till 1 come. Then come ■ to me, my darling. 1 love you and sorrow for you. Thine ever, Lu." USTTEB FBOM MRS. CALHOTTN TO MRS. MoFARLAKD. Mr. Gerry then read the following letter from Mrs. Calhoun to Mrs. McFarland, being Exhibit •» H :" '*Mt Darling: I suppose you must be now bound as I am — and I send a good- morning. Lillie and Junius pronounced your ** Lucy Uapulet '* better than Madame bt. Juliet. *^ There is incense for aeniiLt, I shall work all day and be ready to help you to-morrow. Sacrifice yourself by going to Hennessy's, or in any other way. " My fate cries out and informs me that I wish to know him. I am quite sure there is something behind his gray eyes and mobile face. 1 don't like knowing people indiffer- ently. Huaks are such dry fare. "But people with cares and fruit within draw me so. There are just three persons who are much to me in the flesh — J. B. Y. — and you can guess the other two. "But my dream friends are numerous. Booth is one of them. Spiritually, he is my intimate. He would be amazed to see with what I have endowed him, and how confidential he is with me. Do you have any such whims f ** My novel will be a study of Psychology, I fancy. A strange story. The boy waits. I begin to say tkat I loved you dearly — always shall — always must. "TTiat you are heroic and high and a fospel to me who need one. Some day, or rather some night, I shall tell you such a story of my turbulent existence. I would rather write it, but 1 shall never have time. " Suppose I wrote my novel in letters to you? How much we have to say to each other that we never shall utter till the leisure of the New Jerusalem offers oppor- tunity. Ever my darling, yours, Lu." AirOTHER LETTER FROM MRS. CALHOUN. The following letter from Mrs. Calhoun to Mrs. McFarland was not read in full on ac- count of its length, but Mr. Gerry read the latter part commencing with ** 1 hope you will study towards the stage," etc., leaving the rest to be ready by the prosecution if they chose : " No. 77 Cunton-Placr, Nrw York. ) Sunday Evening, 24th June, 1866. ) "Mr Drar Mrs. McFarijind: It was a good inspiration which led you to write me, and to. believe that I wanted to hear from vou. A dozen times since you went away I have sat down, with the express and absolute purpose of writing you. and then some dreary manuscript interposed and my inter- esting pen labored till it was so tired that it had no power of purpose left. Now that con- sumes time and patience, and exhausts the forces without building any monuments of progress. ** Revising, correcting, and mending, com- paring, regretting. Eminently useful, greatly easier than writing, of which I'm not fond.biat rather dreary. I have not written so very mucJi since you went away. Besides my work for the Tribune, I do a certain class of book reviews for tl^ J/idependent, and go about with hands so very full that 1 have sel- dom opportunity to take up private letters. ; For, as i daresay you know already, but as it is the central fact of the universe it will boar repetition. I am housekeeping I I at- tained that blissful condition^ to ui;y extreme surprise, on the 1st of May. We heard of tliu house but two days befo>re, took it, arid bought one tea-kettle at once. For myself, I am most pleased. *' I enjoy the freedom and largeness and hospitality of home, and as we must live in shell through all Uiis mortal pilgrimage, it is so much more comfortable to liave them of the largest and pleasantest. Our hoi^se is very pleasant, as you shall see when you come back. But for this ignorant present I center with myself with you in tlie smallest farm-house that ever look root in a cleft of hills. For know. Mountain Nymph, that the weather is terrific. Doors and windowa swing wide, the generous palm-leaf is plied; but we, carried over the ghostliest breeze from Northern peak or Western lake or P^astern ocean. June in the country with & wreath of roses and white hands scattering dews, and June in town in the brassy helmet of August, with sunbrowu fingers shading blinded eyes, are no kin together. **Last week the Tribune sent me on a fiying visit to Saratoga, Lake George, and 62 THE BIOHABDSON-McFABLAND TRAGEDY Lake Champlain, the fmite whereof yon 8hc^ have when they hecome immortal in Tueedav^B issue. Saratoga is dreadful, but the Lakes and the far-away hills filled me with delight, fou know I am a Cockney of Cockneys; know nothing of the heart and wonder of country-life; never have seen the mountains in my life save a scattered peak or two, and yet to me they are wonderful. Things not to talk about ; unless the dweller be very fine, constant companionship with nature belittles him I think. Men grow blind and deaf to the glory that is above tlieir heads and beneath their feet. Dortt theyf ** I walk in the dark, but it seems to me that meadow and mountain roses and river are more to me than to the man of whose estate they are a part. And as art and cul- ture must teach me the wonderful secrets and charms of nature, so I fancy must city life train me into country uses. I have no taste for wigwams, but an through the soft spring and passionate summer an eagerness for woods and waters possesses me. Just now I am imprisoned in the loop of the edi- torial scissors, and am so base that I shall doubtless continue to be a bondman all the season, save when the Tribune lets me out to do its journalistic warbling, keeping a string about me that I may not fly too far. If it should believe in the vital element of the success of the paper to have two or three letters from the White Mountains, I am the rirson to sacrifice my ease in its interest, and shall find some practicable route through Shelbume that 1 may take a peep at you. "Everybody is out of town. Mrs. Ward has gone, and the Sinclairs went last week, and everybody else whom I knew had gone before, except Mr. Richardson, who has a room here, and is so delightfully agreeable and good-natured that not even this dreadful weather makes him cross, which is saying a great deal for his Christian discipline. Mr. Oreeley has almost finished his book, and then he is going away. Probably to Saratoga to trip the light, fantastic toel Mrs. Greeley has had a hemorrhage, and is very feeble. For myself, I am very well, rather tired, having made my jaunt in three days, and written three letters, and very anxious of the dryads and hamadryads. " I hope you will study toward the stage. If not /or the stao^e, this summer. That goal seems to me so inevitable, and so desirable, if you cultivate your very great gift at all, that whenever I think of you, I wish you were in your rightful place. The Diana is the beautiful art, and you are worthy to be its prophet. My own dreams of serving it will never be hfypes now, but whenever I see brave ymng feet set toward it, and thought- ful brows bent thitherward, I say, * God epeed,' from my inward soul. **I am so weary to-night, and so warm and uncomfortable that I have written a most stupid letter, but I would not longer let your dear note go unanswered. I have no doubt that we met in this great high-road because each had something for the other, and we will know whai it is. Write at the office or here, and be assured of answers as speedy as my tired pen can write. Ever and always believe me, affectionately yours, ■ ** Lu. G. Calhoun." When Mr. (^rry came to the J. R. Y. in the above letter, Mr. Davis, who was holding the original, exclaimed : — " J. R. U. That's J. R. U." " No, it is not," replied Mr. Graham ; " we have held a microscope upon it, and it is J. R. Y. It means John Russell Young." This nanifMtly opened a very pretty sub- ject for gossip. In order to do our share towards making the crooked straiglit and causing the desert to bloom like the rose, our reporter called upon Mr. Young, who is now slaying, with his wife, at the Bingham House, in this city. Mr. Young was con- fined to his room with a temporary illness, and only saw the allusion to him in the New York papers for the first time when shown to him by oar reporter. Rep&rter — There seems to have been some dispute about the reading, Mr. Young. What is your opinion? Mr, ToHng — (Reading the letter aloud and smiling) — Explanation I It is as much of a riddle to me as the Rosetta Stone. It makes nonsense, and Mrs. Calhoun never wrote nonsense. Her English, in the old TribwM times, was as clear as crystal. It is evident that some of those New York people have put my name in as a sensation. Still, it makes no difference. I am very glad to know that Mrs. Calhoun liad so high an opinion of me. To be singled out of all that brilliant company a? a " core and fruit" man is a good deal more than I deserve. Reporter — What brilliant company ? Mr, Young — I mean the brilliant company that clustered around the 7Vt6ane. There were some of the highest men and women of the country. Mrs. Calhoun had too much sense to distinguish me in this extra- ordinary manner. There can be nothing more improbable. Mrs. Calhoun was on the Tribune staff, and it was in my power, as Managing Editor, to give her the aid and encouragement which her genius demanded. It is quite probable she may have expressed herself extravagantly, as she was always enthusiastic in her opinions. Reporter — Was she your appointment ? Mr, Toeing — No; my recollection is tha< Mr. Greeley appointed herl He always esteemed Mrs. Calhoun very highly, and he has said over and over again she was the best writer on the Tribune, In some classes of work we had no stronger pen. Reporter — Who is Henuessy? Mr. Young — The artist, and an extremely pleasant gentleman. Reporter — Was Booth one of the " bril- liant company?" Mr. Young — No. I fancy no one about THE RICHARDSOX-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 65 the Tribune knew Booth but myself. I am rare Mrs. Calhoun did not. Stuart may liave introduced her later. Booth is a good deal of a recluse, knows few people, and confines himself to his business. Reporter — Who are the three persons Mrs. Calhoun refers to 7 Mr. Young — T really cannot say. I fancy she refers to Mr. Calhoun, whom I knew ; very well, and who was a clever, amiable gen- tleman. He lived very happily with his wife, as far as I ever saw or heard. She was always regarded as a devoted wife. He died shortly a^er this letter was written. Reporter — Do you know McFarland ? Mr. Young — Oh yes, very well. He is in- sane. I would acquit him as a totally irre- sponsible being. I have always felt a deep pity and sympathy for him. He used to come and talk to me about his troubles, and I always treated him with respect and sym- pathy as a man of sorrows and misery, so Wdened with grief that his reason was over- thrown. There can be no doubt of this. Reporter — I presume that opinion will acquit him. Mr. Young — No doubt; and justly, too. Bat in the enort to acquit him his counsel seem disposed to destroy every man who bew Mr. Richardson or mourned his death. That is terribly unfair. * Reporter — You of course knew Richardson? Mr. Young — Oh yes, very well. His death was a sad tragedy. He was beginning a life of effort and of promise, and had many noble qualities. I knew nothing at all of his con- nection with this business, except what was always in the air. I shall ever think of him tLS I knew him, and do not feel that I or any one should cast the first stone. Reporter — When will the McFarland trial end? Mr. Young — This is not the McFarland trial. The Tribune is on trial. Mr. McFar- land has been acquitted from the beginning. But this is meant to destroy the Tribune. One of the lawyers is Mr. Dana's attorney. The idea of Greeley or Sam Sinclair being Free Lovers ! Why there are no two men on Manhattan Island so free from any sym- pathy with the movement. They take the Roman Catholic theory of marriage. Gree- ley quarrelled with Richardson because he oriticised his conduct, and he did criticise it over and over again to me. The day after Richardson was shot, Mr. Greeley dined with Mrs. Young and myself, and was as earnest in his condemnation of poor Richard- ton as he could well be. These people are crowding Greeley, but he will pay them back again. He never forgets. TKe war upon him and upon Sinclair is simply an outrage, and is meant for the Tribune. Rt*porter — Why don't the Tribune fight ? Mr. Young — That annoys me. The Tri- bune, however, is eccentric in its wars. It would not lei me make any war upon Dana, and didn't even print my card to the Evening Fbet. Still that was not Greeley's fault. 5 } Reporter — Whose was it ? Mr. Young — Well, we won't talk about that. Time will show. I'm rather afraid of you gentlemen reporters. In this present business I have no connection. I never had anything to do with it. If I've said any- thmg that will help you, you can sift it out. I don't intend to bother with it. Thanking Mr. Young for his courtesy we bade him adieu. In his replies to our ques- tions he was free and prompt, speaking in his usual rapid style, and with that ease for which he is remarkable. The following letters were read on Wed- nesday : LETTER 7B0K MBS. CALROTTir TO MBS. MOFABLAKD. " No. 77 Clinton-Place, Aug. 16, 1866, Sunday afternoon. ** My BRLOVKn Friknd : — It is after dinner, and I am bilious; so expect a soporific. Do you know I have almost decided to lecture this winter, if I can persuade anybody to hear me, which is problematical. I am going to work at my lectures at all events, and shall resume my elocution lessons to strengthen my voice. I know there is as much in me as in Anna Dickinson, and I mean to coin my heart for drachms, if it be possible. If I can arrange to earn $75 by doing extra work these next two weeks, look for me. You know I shall have just double bills to pay, but I want mother to have a nice time, and be able to go just where she likes. Father used to be rich, and now they are poor, but mother has never been reconciled, and I want to give her all the pleasure within my very narrow grasp. So, my darling, I have told you all my disappointments. When I thought I should be able to go by this time my bills had not come in, and I did not know how difficult it would be for me to arrange them ; and I have so many persons beside myself to consider. My heart has gone to you ever so many times, arid I shall follow m the body, if it be possible. And now to leave this miserable Ledger business for something better. For myself, I have avowed my hnmediate future. All this fall and winter I shall do my exceeding utmost to make money. It is the one potent servant, the comforter and consoler and helper. In its uses, I mean ; of course, not in itself. And you — I hope your desire and purpose for the stage has not faded or been trampled out by hard hoofs of necessity. Have you had any encouragement ? I am very useless in that way, having no direct theatrical influence, but I'll try to obtain some. I know that you would succeed, and I fully believe it to be your best and noblest work. Nothing so much as the stage needs good lives and good heads. I know I could help you in the direc- tion of your wardrobe, but 1 feel there is not much that I can do. ** However, my dear child, the helpers will come. Of course I know that the life is by no means an easy one. I know that I coun- «6 THfi RIOHARDSON-McFAELAND TRAGEDY. 8el you to discouragement and toil, and con- tact with coarse people and sights. But if I had half the confidence in my powers that I liave in yours, I should have been on the stage months ago ; and I know that I should not have failed ; I think you have so many, gifts, your beautiful voice, your changing coloi, your varying, soulful face, your ear- nestness and freshness of nature, your love for your art — and in your love for your art, and your love for your children, yon have also the highest incentive. Bear child, 1 wish I could make your path straight and smooth to the highest success, but only that success is highest to which we make our way with pain and toil. When you come back we will have a long talk about this matter, and see if we cannot make one eager ambition give place to excellent doing. J. Stuart might be induced to place you on the staff. They have absolutely no lady at Winter Garden. That Miss Johnson is a chambermaid of the most hopeless order, and how Edwin Booth can play with her passes my understanding. Now, if ever, women of power are needed on the stage ; and I believe way can be made. You know Stuart loves the Tribunt. I'll write to Mr. Gay and per- suade him to use his influence, if it will do any good. A Mr. Long would help me. Write me everything; all your hopes and fears and troubles. Meanwhile, I shall in- dulge a lovely dream of seeing a fitting Des- 4emona, and Juliet, and Ophelia and Mari- tana, to an Othello long unmatched though often dreadfully wedded, a doting but incom- prehensible Richelieu, a Hamlet who must have been made to love such a maiden as the stage has long cursed him with, and a Don Gssar whose one unpardonable crime was the admiration of the abominable gipsy, he is compelled to make love to. " When are you coming home ? We must see much of each other this winter. We cannot afiford to miss that, I think. I need you, and I am sure you want me. My dear, I don't quite suppose we shall be able to set the world right, but we may do something toward keeping each other right. I get dreadfully tired and discouraged, and the mistakes of ray life well nigh overwhelm me at times ; and if I can catch somebody to preach to I always find myself wonderfully improved in temper and cheerfulness. I perceive that you have a beautiful patience which fits you to be a victim, and I dare say I shall make you one. I must stop for the charming interruption of correcting an endless proof. This worthless letter must go, because 1 shall not have time to write an- other. Let me hear very soon from you, please. And remember that whether 1 am so happy as to come or remain here and await you, I am ever freely yours, -tuG.C ." " Did you ask me once what was my name ? It is the pretty Italian name Lu-ci-a. But everybody mispronounces it, so I like the diminutive better. Please use it." lETTEB FBOM HBS. CALEOinsr TO MES. ITC- FABIAND. The next letter offered by the defence was from the same to the same, and was marked Exhibit "A." "No. 77 Clinton-Place. Saturday, Ist " Mt Dearest Child : Do you know what is my panacea for all my woes 7 Mr. Rich- ardson. No body is half so kind and unsel- fish as he ; and when I am 'stuck/ as the newsboys say, I just tell him, and his clear common sense and kind heart always find a way into smooth paths again. Therefore, if I and he were here I should just trust him with the whole story, and send him to see Stuart, whom he knows very well. Alas, he left for Kansas on Wednesday, and my right hand is wanting ; so X must even do the next best thing — I cannot at this moment tell what, but my inspiration will come in the course of the day. It always does. I never met Stuart but once, when he was very courteous. He would not remember me now; but if it is the best thing for me to go and see him, I shall go. I shall just find out all his ways from one or two Bohemians who know him intimately, and then visit him, and ask him to come and take luncheon with me, as will most propitiate his lordship. My dear, this thing is going to be done. I ibotf it can be, and I mean it shall. I shall set about it to-day, and have progress to re> port when you come back. **Mrs. Mowatt is a shining exception to Mr, Stuart's theory. Mr. Yandenhoff is another. Charlotte Cushman went on the stage to sing, not to play. Madeline Henri- ques, to her admirers, and Mrs. Jennings, are two more. But it is for us to establish pre- cedents, not to follow them. What did oar fathers die for, else ? Actresses are bom, not made, and if most of our actors were trained for the stage, it is quite time we had some who were not. We may hope for decency, if not for genius. Think of that dreadful Johnson at Winter Garden as one of the trained school? Or, indeed, of all Booth's support for that matter. I know that we can do this thin^ and we must Of course you can take a feigned name for your country engagement ; and when you are coin- menced here they can say ' her first appear- ance at this tlieatre.' I should do it by all means. Of course it is no previoiis reputa- tion that Stuart wants, but only the assur- ance that on the stage you will know your right hand from your left. It vexes me. when he has such materials in use, tliat he should interpose objections to better. But I suppose it is necessary. •* Well, my darling, there is more gldry in plucking bright honor from the pale-faced moon than being petted with sugar-plums uf ease — isn't there ? The very effort will make the fruit better worth. We'll see ; but don't have one doubt of the end. It is per- severance and will that win in the end ; and you have talent for fifty actresses as at pres ent rated. THE RICHARDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. 67 "Yotir letter has but just come, and I dashed off this sheet that you might not be kept waiting. I'll write again when I have news to tell. I want you, and I am starving for the living bread of rocks and hills and rivers, but I must e'en feed myself with pav- ing-stones, I fear. I don't suppose it will be possible for you to come. If any kind fate should bequeath me a lottery-ticket of value JQ the brief interim, I will be with you on that Good Friday. I am the scribbling Sisyphea whose rock rolls down faster than she can bring it up again. I fear I don't sing at the endless task like my antitype. "Ah I well, life is nothing but the use we make of it, and it is better to get false teeth for people who need them than to gather ap- ples of Olympus for one's self. What will be your Salem address? Come to me as soon as you are back, and let me know the New York number. We must gather what gold we can in town, if the millions and Aaron's rods did have to fall into melancholy |rave8 without the benediction of my smile. Yon will be very rood indeed to let me read With you. I shall enjoy it, and profit by it immensely. My voice is penetrating when in best condition, but strong only in the low notes, and they are rusty now. What I want is fullness of tone, and I think I can gain that by diligent work. I must stop. I hope you can read thid crooked scrawl. « Ever and always, my beloved, yours fully, ** Lu." " Write often.' AKOTHEB LETTEB. " Olinton-Placb, Thursday, 27th. "Hurrah, my darling I All my wheels are turning the rignt way, and the world moves. Mr. Stuart has just gone. He did answer your second letter at length. Booth was with him when it reached him, and he read it to that divine man, who feels interested in yen. I quote the words of the potentate, and if you will play such parts as the Queen in Hamlet, and others, at first, you can have an engagement with the miracle here 1 1 this winter ! I I under an assumed name MI! Or, if you don't want to do that, Mr. Stuart will give you an engagement in the country ; bat I advise here first by all means. '*My darling, I could not be happier if I had discovered a ^Id mine. Maybe we have. 'Iliink of playmg with Booth. I believe I should die of that rose in aromatic pain if such a privilege were mine. My dear, this is such a good omen. Youth, and hope, and beauty, as poor Miss Flite used to say, but there is no sad moral in this case. I hope this will reach you in Boston, it will comfort you no much,; but if it does not, it will be oiiiy because you will be here where I can tell you all the wire-pulling I have done. I am really good for something, I believe, after all, and when you succeed I shall felicitate myself as none other. I pray you pardon this incoherent scrawl. I am 80 delighted. I know not how to be consecutive. In all my prayers hereafter I shall name Mr. Stuart by name. Nobody could be kinder than he, and he wants you to come and see him as soon as you are here. * Such larks, Pip,' and Booth 1 he has talked about you, and himself proposed to bring you out. See Naples and then die. *' I must stop to catch the mail. " My darling, I put two loving arms about you, and give you the heartiest and hope- fulest blessing you ever had in your life. Gome at once. If you should come on Satur- day, and don't have time to come and see me, go to church — Mr. Frothingham's, For- tieth St., near Sixth ave. — on Sunday morn- ing, and sit with me, pew No. 89, and we will talk it all over afterward. Ever devotedly, " Lu." TENTH DAY. The trial was continued on Monday in Part I. of the Supreme Court. The tenth day of the trial came in, bringing with it no abatement of the interest which has from the first characterized the case. As early as 10 o'clock the people began to throng the New Court-House and to gravitate toward the doors of the room in which the trial was to come on. At II o'clock the stairs were lined with curious individuals, and from thence to the particular door, a small, very small passage, was kept clear for the officers of the Court and the few privileged to enter. TESTIUOmr OF MRS. UABY UASOK. Examined by Mr. Graham — In March, 1867, 1 resided at No. 72 Amity st. ; I live now at No. 62 Amity st. ; I lived at No. 72 one year; I know Daniel McFarland, the f)risoner; he had a room at my house; he ived there from three to four months in 1867; his wife was with him; she is the Eerson indicated by these pictures; they ad the back parlor and extension on the first fioor; the ground floor; it was a two- story house with an attic, between Laurens and Thompson sts., on the right as you go from Sixth av. toward Broadway ; they had a back room on the floor as you go through the street door ; I knew Albert D. Bichard- son ; that is a picture of him ; he came to my house to live some time after Mr. and Mrs. McFarland came ; I should think about two weeks afterward, may be less ; he had the front room and closets; the first room as vou go in from the street door. Q. What separated the front from the back room ? A. Folding doors. Q. How were those doors fastened, if they were fastened, after Mr. Richardson came there ? They were not at all fastened, just pulled to. Q. That was the only fastening ? A. That was the only fastening. Q. How came Mr. Kichardson to come to your house? A. Mrs. McFarland told me she had a friend who lived across the way, and had to leave there and would like to hire my parlor; she told me that two week^ •J 68 THE BICHABDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. I think, before he carae; Mrs. McFarland told me what he desired and I said he wanted an office and my furniture was too costly, but Mr. Richardson helped the servant girl to take out the furniture and put in some that was less costly and the parlor carpet was covered with a drugget ; the inferior furniture I furnished ; I think Mr. Richard* son brought a rocking-chair only, and a large writmg desk of his own ; he came there to live about a week or two after Mrs. Mc- Farland spoke about " her friend ;" she did not tell his name until he came to the house and she introduced him ; I think he came to take possession the third day after I first saw him ; on the first day he just came in, in the morning, I think, and saw the parlor and talked with Mrs. McFarland and me about it; I didn't consent to let him the room in the morning, and he returned in the afternoon and said he would take it; the things were moved the morning he came. Mr. Graham — ^Richardson, according to our calculation, came there about the 20th of January, 1867. Direct — Q. Did Mr. Richardson sleep there nights ? A. Yes, sir. Q. What kind of a bed did he lie on, and in what part of the room was it ? A. The head of it was toward the folding doors. Q. So he could hear everything that went on in the back room ? A. Yes, sir. Mr. Graham — That was the way he amused himself? Direct — It was a regular -bed ; Mr. Rich- ardson was out evenings, but I never knew Mr. McFarland to be out in the evening ; in the morning Mr. McFarland would go away soon after lO o'clock ; I frequently saw him back between 2 and 3, or about 4 o'clock; his family consisted of his wife and his son Percy ; after Mf. McFarland came home he would sometimes go out, as if to market, but he would come right back. Q. Where would Mrs. McFarland be ? A. I don't know exactly; she was engaged at the theatre; I have known her to go out frequently during the day ; I have seen her come in at 1 and 2 o'clocK in the afternoon. Q. Did you ever see Mr. McFarland in liquor while he was there? A. No, sir; never. Q. How did he treat his wife; A. I thought very kindly. Q. Did you ever know of any cruel treat- ment on his part to her ? A. I never did ; I was home all the time, so, if anything had occurred, I should certainly have seen or known of it ; their manner was very kind ; I have seen Mr. McFarland wait on Mrs. Mc- Farland a great deal ; 1 remember the day she went away with Percy ; I think it was the 2l8t of February; Mr. McFarland, on that morning, left about 9 o'clock ; I knew of no trouble between them before he left; I never heard her make a complaint against him; she told me he treated her always kindly ; I don't think I saw him that day until 4 o'clock ; when he left that morning, she and Percy were his family ; they had no servant girl ; she went away the day before he returned ; I saw her go ; 1 think she veot about 2 or 2 J o'clock ; she went with Percy; I saw no one else with her ; she did not tell me where she was going; I had not the slightest idea that she meant to abscond from her Lusband when she went out ; I hid a Mrs. Kate Stevenson in the house at the time, who was the only servant; she lived there all the time Mr. and Mrs. McFarland were there ; Richardson was there the morn- ing she left; he slept there that night; I heard of his being away two or three nij^U, but with that exception he was there every night ; he was generally home early in the evening, writing. Q. Did you ever see Mr. Richardson in Mrs. McFarland's room ? A. Yes, sir. Q. There was a bed in it ? A. Yes. sir. Q. Did you ever see Richardson in that room ? A. I have. Q. How often? A. I don't know, but I saw him three times one afternoon there. Q. How long was that before Mrs. McFar- land absconded? A. It may have been a week before, Q. What did yon see on these three occa- sions in the same afternoon ? A. I went to borrow an ink-bottle ; I think Mrs. McFar- land gave it to me; Mr. Richardson satin the rocking-chair, rocking ; Mrs. McFarland was sitting right by him ; their chairs were facing each other; when they were sitting down they were a yard or two apart; they were not very close ; on the second occasion, about an hour after, I went for a stamp, and Mrs. McFarland eave it to me; Mr. Bich- ardson was there ; he evinced embarrassment very plainly ; I didn't notice if she was em- barrassed ; half an hour afterward a yonsg lady called, a relative of Mr. McFarland's, and I knocked at the door to tell Mrs. M& Farland that some one had come ; on that occasion I found Mr. Richardson there also; I could not see how he was seated, became the young lady passed in ; I heard Mrs M^ Farland introduce h«r to Mr. Bichardion ; I did not see whether Mrs. McFarland was dressing or doing anything connected with her wardrobe; Mr. McFarland remained about three days after Mrs. McFarland kft; it may have been longer; Mr. Biohardaon continued to have that room until about the middle of March ; Mrs. McFarland came back after Mr. McFarland left ; she asked mc to give her the back parlor again, as the gentl^ man's family with whom she was stayinff were coming home from Washington, and if I would let her stay a week and finish ber engagement at the theatre she would then go to her father in Boston ; she had a ladv with her, whom she introduced as Miss Gil- bert, Mr. Richardson's intended ; I told her my husband was occupying the back room, and then she wanted to go into Mr. Richard- son's room; I told her no, she could not have it ; Mr. Richardson, at that time, was publishing a book in Hartford, and paying THE EICHAEDSON-McFABLAND TRAGEDY. 69 for the room during his absence ; she told me this young lady was Mr. Richardson's intended, when she introduced me; Mrs. McFarland did not get into Mr. Richardson's rooiQi but she wanted to sleep there for a week; she told me Mr. McFarland's niece would sleep with her — the young lady, I think, who came in on the third occasion I have spoken of. ELEVENTH DAY. 'Phe Court opened a little later than usual, owing to the non-appearance of Recorder Hackett. The room rapidly filled, a larger number of ladies being present than on any previous day. The first witness called was Mrs. Mary Mason, whose direct testimony was not con- cluded the previous day, on account of the lateness of the hour. Her examination was continued by Mr. Graham, as follows : Q. Mrs. Mason, we were at the point of ^our stating that your husband was occupy- ing the back room when Mrs. McFarland came to your house, and of her asking if she could be allowed to occupy Mr. Richardson's room with her niece. Did she get into your bouse at that time ? A. No, sir ; not for three days afterward ; my husband had then racated the back room. Q. Did you see her during those three Jays ? A. Yes, sir ; about twice, when she :ame for letters.; I saw the letters. Q. Where were they from? A. From Bartford. Q. That was where Richardson was ? A. YeSf sir ; his initials were on the letters. Q. How long after she got possession of the back room did Richardson come? A. Very soon after; sooner than she said he would return. Q. Did he telegraph her when he would some? A. He sent word not to lock his door. Q. Did you see Mr. Richardson when he came in, or when did you discover that he had returned ? A. The girl told me he was in the room the next morning ; that was the first I knew of it ; when I went to bed the [light before, he was not there ; when I got np in the morning he was ; he sent to me that morning for a night-key. Q. Some person must have let him in ? A. Yes, sir ; I don't know who it was. Q. Do you remember Mrs. McFarland's BYer saying to you that she did not intend to live with her husband again? A. I think she did say something to that effect ; I told her I was surprised ; I thought Mr. McFar- land was very devoted to her ; she said she knew he was. Q. Did you remember her coming in one night and carrying out some things? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did she return to the house to sleep af- ter that night ? A. No, sir. . Q. What time did she come in ? A. Be- tween 9 and 10 o'clock. Q. What did she take out ? A. Several letters, and put them in her pocket, and also endeavored to secrete them from the girl ; she afterward went into Mr. Richardson's room and took his night-clothes and a demi- john that was there ; I saw he r do this. Q. When did McFarland come to the house after that ? A. The next day or day after. Q. Did he go into this back room ? A. He did. and I was with him ; he examined the trunk and found a bundle of letters; there was one from Mrs. Calhoun and one from Mrs. Sinclair; I don't know whether there were more than one from Mrs. Cal- houn; Mr. McFarland read one from Mrs. Calhoun and one from Mrs. Sinclair. Q. Did he discover a likeness of Richard- son in the trunk ? A. Yes, sir. [Counsel showed witness a picture of Richardson, which she said was not the one found in the trunk, which was much largerj Q. Did he leave that in the trunk? A. Yes, sir ; he was there about three-quarters of an hour, and was very much agitated. Q. Did you tell McFarland about your having seen Richardson three times in one afternoon in Mrs. McFarland's room? A. Yes, sir; I told him the whole story as I have told it here. Q. Do you remember Richardson's coming to breakfast with Mrs. McFarland at tliat house ? A. The girl told me so ; I sent up extra dishes for breakfast; I saw Richardson after the breakfast, about 10^ o'clock ; this was three days after Mrs. McFarland had taken possession of the back room. Q. Who cooked the breakfast? A. Mrs. McFarland. Q. Do ^ow remember the day the washer- woman brought some clothes there? A. Yes, sir. [Mr. Graham shows witness a piece of paper.] Q. Was this piece of paper left on the clothes by the washerwoman ? A. It looks like the paper. Q. Did you see Mr. McFarland take that paper in his hands ? A. Yes, sir. Q. Mrs. McFarland's clean clothes were in that basket ? A. Yes, sir. [Mr. Graham then read what the paper contained. It was a list of the clothes cleaned. It consisted of three dozen and four pieces for Mrs. McFarland, and one dozen and two pieces for Mr. Richard- son.] Mr. Graham — I want to show that their washing went to the washerwoman, and came back clean, in the same basket. Q. How often did Mr. McFarland come to see you after that? A. A good many times. Q. Was he not in a state of great excite- ment ? A. He was. Q. When was this trunk removed in which he found the letters ? A. I don't re- member ; three or four days ; it was removed by Miss Gilbert, Miss Gilbert's father, and Mrs. McFarland in the morning. 70 THE MCHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. TESTIMONY OF ANN MoCOUMAT. Examined by Mr. Graham. I reside at No. 127 Amity street ; I was living there in March, 1867, and have lived there seven years. Q. Did you wash any clothes in the month of March, 1867, or about that time, that came from and were returned to No. 72 Amity street? A. Yes, sir. Q. For whom? A. Mrs. McFarland and Mr. Richardson. Q. Did you wash for Mrs. McFarland after she went away from No. 72 Amity street? A. Yes, sir. Q. Do you remember this paper? A. Yes, sir. Q. What clothes did you attach that Saper to? A. To 'Mr. Richardson's and [r. McFarland's and Mrs. McFarland's; Mrs. McFarland's clothing was by itself; my little girl got the clothes. Q. Now all the clothes mentioned on this Saper in pencil writing were sent home to To. 72 Amity street at one time ? A. Yes, sir. TESTIMOKY OF DAVID 8UABB. Mr. David Suarr was then called and ex- amined by Mr. Graham. I live at No. 72 Amity street, and have owned the house about nve years ; I lived there while Mr. and Mrs. Mason lived there ; I rented it to them ; I retained the second floor ; it is a good house and clean ; I have seen Mr. McFarland once in a while ; I re- member when he and his wife and child lived in the house; I saw them once in a while, and also saw Mr. Richardson. Q. Now, did you ever see Mrs. McFarland going into Mr. Richardson's room, and he going into her room? A. Yes, sir; I saw it every time I saw her. Q. How soon after Mr. Richardson came into the house did you see that ? A. I Uiink right off. Q. Have you seen it more than once in a day ? A. Once or twice ; I have seen them writing together in the front room ; I have seen them alone talking together. Q. Well, where was Mr. McFarland upon the occasion when you saw Richardson and his wife together as you have stated ? A. I do not know. Did you see him when you saw Richardson going into her room ? A. No, sir, of course not ; he was not there at this time. Q. You saw Percy then? A. I saw him in the yard. To Judge Gai*vin — I have owned that house five years and three months; Mrs. Mason occupied that house one year ; I do not know how many men Mr. Richardson had writing for him ; I saw them going in and out; I never called upon him or upon Mr. McFarland; I was not acquainted with any of them except to know them by sitrht; I knew that Mr. Richardson was writing for the newspapers and writing books. Q. All you know is what you saw as you passed throusrh the hall? A. Going up a^ coming down stairs. TESTIUONT OF WM. D. NOBBIS, COLOBED. Examined by Mr. Graham — I live h Georgetown now; I came on to be a witness upon this trial ; I know Daniel McFarland the prisoner ; 1 lived in the house of Mr. Sin clair when he resided at No. 8 West AVash ington-place ; I was there in February, 1867 when Mrs. McFarland came there to live ; 1 first saw Mr. Richardson in this house some time during that Winter : I lived from Octo her 7, 1866, to March 17, 1869, at Mr. Sin clair's ; I know Mrs. McFarland ; I saw hei at the house at the time I knew Richardsoi to visit there ; before this I knew Mr. Rich ardson and Mrs. McFarland to be in tha house together two or three times ; I thin! I first saw them together about the holidays 1 saw them there together a good man^ times ; 1 have known them to be frequently in one another's company about an hour ; think they came and lunched together one or twice there ; on other occasions 1 sa^ them in the parlor ; they were sitting clos together ; it Was generally in the afternoon Mrs. McFarland would come first and the Mr. Richardson would come. Q. Have you ever seen any liberties pw between them? You know what libertic are, don't you ? A. Do you mean letters [laughter.] Q. Have you ever seen them put thei hands on one another ? A. Yes ; I have seei them shake hands. Q. Anything else ? A. I have seen then kissing. Q. Who kissed ? A. She kissed him. Q. On how many occasions did you m that ? A. I saw it once. Q. When was that? A. That was th( time she was leaving for Boston. Q. Don't you remember having seen ii before that? A, No, sir. Q. Did you never see her put her arms around his neck ? A. Not before that. Cross-examined — He was in the back par lor at the time ; Mrs. Sinclair and her siste were there, too, but no one else ; she wen off to Boston on that day ; Mr. Sinclair wa not there ; it was March 17, 1867. Q. Had Mr. Richardson been laid up ii bed before that? [Objected to, and es eluded.] Cross-examined — This was about 2 in th afternoon; I was not in the room but could see as well as if I was there ; the cai riage was at the door ; Mrs. McFarland, Mn Sinclair and I went in it ; I rode with tli driver ; I didn't go to take care of th^ trunk but just for the ride. Re-direct — We went to the New Have depot. TESTIMONY OF CHARITY ANDEEMAN. Examined by Mr. Crahara — I live in Nei ark. New Jersey, at No. 437 Washinj^tf St. ; ill the Spring and Summer of 1868 THE BIOHABDSON-HcFARLAND TRA.QEDY. 73 i living in Eliatabeth av. ; I knew a Tanjily Ihe name of Gilbert ; I could not aay lelher or not the father'R name ia Arad ; \ basineBa was to peddle bnoks ; I have m Mra. McFarland there ; slie had a child lb her, a little boy called Danny ; these ;liireB represent her ; ahe was atopping m; I lived about 200 hnndred yards froin ; house ; Mr. Gilbert's Camiiy moved there Hay, 1866, and ahe came with them ; I ink she remained tliere three or four intlis ; I aaw Mr. Richardann there ; the St I noticed of him I ased to gee her fre- pntly meeting him ; I saw them one day len he had a bouquet in hia haod; Mrs. ;Fatland was right behind me, and as Mr. churdson paased me, 1 turned around ; he ve Mrs. McFarland the bouqnet and ey kissed each other ; 1 never aaw them wt but that one time in that way ; I aaw r aearly every evening between four and ego by on the sidewalk, and in ten or i«en mlnntea she and Mr. Bichardson iqM come hack together; this lasted three tour months; I npversaw Mr-Bicbardaop 'tway in the morning, to my recolleqtion ; Hver saw him leave at all ; 1 saw him go to the house, but I never saw hivi' come t that I recollect. Frank B. Carpenter, Edwin Booth, and illiam Stuart were called for, b(it were not iBanxoBT or AUKi. bvbbook. Eiamiaed by Mr. Gerry — In the Fail of 66, 1 wuB attached to the Winter Garden l>Mtre as general drrwier for the ladies ; J lew Mrs. McFarland as Miss Cnshing ; she St uime there in November, 1866 ; I have ni Mr. Bichardson come there for Mrs. cFarland at the close of the performnnce; have seen him three or four times waiting T h«r ; I tliiiik T first saw him there about e middle of March ; Mrs. McFarland ap- ■ared as Nerissa the first time I dressed her ; >e liBd played the Queen in Hamlet during '0 weeks that I was away ; Mr. Richardson '■ae for her the last night she played, in Uth. 1667 ; I waa a witness on the habeas 'fpas, and communicated this to Mr. Mc- irUnd. Cross-examined by Judge Davis — I have ' recollection of ever peeing Mr. Richard- 1 there until about the middle of March, m. Re-direct — I didn't gee hipi more than fee or four times altogether; he was wait- ' for her when Uie curtain feli, and went ay with her ; Mrs. McFarland said to me 't her hnsband was very pood and kind to f i there was a great difference in their °«. but that made no diSereuce ; she told ' that several times. SICHABSSOB'S LIFE IRSintAIICB POLICY. 'harles A. Hopkins, cashier of the Mutual e Incwrance Company of New York, was I middle ofllie day ; they called by invitation >rn, and produced an identified Policj-. No. to see one "' '-'' '' --■-■'—' »■- 254, issued by that Company Jannary 13, I Bichardson, 1868, for 43,000, in favor of Albert D. Rich- ardson, assigned to Mra. Abbie S. McFarland, and paid February 2S, 1870, to Mrs. Abbie S. Richardson. Tiub was offered in evidence and objected to. Mr. Graham— I propose to show that this is competent under evidence that Mr. S'ones gave that he had a conversation wiili Mr. Richardson on the Tib of January, liiG7, in which Bichardson said that he (nL>t Mrs- McFarland, but he himself) meant In get a divorce and to marry her as sooit ;is he could, and meant tliat she should neviT live with her husband again. I mean to show that from that hour he fulfilled the threat to the letter. He averted from that woman pecuniary need and put her in diamondri and silks far beyond her means. Be templed her with life insurance in her favor, and with every species of gaw-gaw that could possibly attract her. I doubt whether walls and bars would have kept this woman from her hus- band as effectually as the pecnniary Hiupta- tions with which this libertine surrDiinded her. . Richardson was the villain Ihut held her in the palm of his hand. When a man goes to a well-earned tomb as Richardson did, it would be impiety, when justice calls, to speak of his acts in any other terms tlian they demand. I have no right to call him a saint if the ,eyidence shows him to be a devil. His very body now desecrates the grave. There is no man Uiat carries a heart in hia bosom that wants to lie under the ground if it covers such a body aa Bichard- son carried in his life. Recorder Ilackett, after quietly rem;irking that "Richardson unfortunately is ni^t here to defend himself," decided that the insui-ance policy waa not material to the case and could not be allowed. , TWELFTH DAY. The twelfth day of- the McFarland trial showed no diminution in the numbers who clamored for admission, while the number who succeeded in getting in was larger than The first witness called was Mr. Carpenter, the artist and author of "Six Months in the White House," who was examined by Mr. Gerry : I am an artist by profession, and was ac- quainted with Mr. Richardson: I also knoiv Mr. McFarland, the prisoner, and his wife ; I first knew Mr. Richardson in 186,')— I think in January or February ; I do not remember ever seeing Mt. Richardson and Mrs. McFar- land at my house together at an entertain- ment; 1 remember an occasion when Mr, Richardson was present at my house at an entertainment ; I saw them together once in February, 1867, at my studio ; I do not re- member the day. of the month ; I should say that they called abont 12 o'clock, i" " " " oflh " , _ ) of my paintings; I invited Mr. n, and lie asked if he might bring THE RICHABDSON-MoPABLAND TRAQEDT. one or two rriendsi T said certftinly; this wbb previous to (he 23d of February ; they did not remain bat a short time. TES ESTATE 07 ALBEBT D. BICEABIISOII. Mr. Angiiatng W. Olliver was then called to teslify as to whether any letters of ad- ministration had been granted on the entute of Albert D. Richardson in this city, but the testimony was eicluded by Recorder Hack- ett, the defence taking an exception to his rnling. and to all sabseqnfnt rulings against them on documentary evidence. TEBTIHOITT OF JOHK H. CEATOCET. Mr. John M. Chauncey was then called, and eiunined by Mr. Orafiam. I reside at No. 228 Spring st. Register relative to real estate standing in the name of Daniel McFarland, and find the record of a deed from Thomas C. Stone to Daniel McFarland. dated June 3, 1858, con- veying a house and lot, No. 389 Greenwich St., the consideration being $20,000 ; I also And recorded a deed from Wm. Hagerdon to Daniel McFarland, dated April 23, 1859, of the lots Noa. 244, 246, 2S4 and 256 East Fonrteenth st., for $20,000. Mr. Gerry — I offer in evidence an exempli- fied copy or a deed of a house made the 15th of April. 1869. from Miles Janson and Jane his wife, of the township of Woodside, to Albert D. Blchardaon for the consideration of 89,000. [Kicluded.] Mr. Graham— The object of that U to show. Sir. that Richardson was raaking provision For this marriage, supposed to take place as soon as a fraudalent divorce was procured. I olTer next in evidence, nnder the seal of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, the diploma of Daniel McFarland allowing him to practice law in the Supreme Court of that Sute. [Excluded as irrelevant.^ Mr, Graham — 'I'hat is competent, if yoni- Honor please, as showing his occupatio] He has a right to practice in three States- Mas 9 achnsetts. this State and Wisconain. Recorder Hackett — If you press it, it is admitted. Mr. Graham — He could not ^t a respect. able lawyer to move his admission unless be iTBi a respectable man. Recorder Huekett— I think Mr. McFar- land's character has been fully proved. Mr. Gerry — 1 offer further a letter from Samuel Sinclair, bearing date Jan. 11, 1867, to Mr. McElrath. We will by this show that the friendship between them extended down to 1869. This evidence is important, as showing the friend- ship between him and Mr. Sinclair, [Ad- _Ditted.] Mr. Gerry then read the letter, as follows : Officr or Tnn Tribdnf. Vr.iiR Sib: 1 have known Mr. Daniel McFarland for many years, and know him in honest, capable and worthy man, 'thy of your confidence, I aak yon to give him an appointment in yoar deptrt- ent. Very respectfully, Sahuel Sivclaii. I offer nest a letter from Saranel Sinclair, bearing date 9th of March, 1B67, to the Hon Salmon P. Chase. [Objected to,] Recorder Hackett — Why don't yon inb- pcena Mr. Sinclairl Mr. Graham — Yotir Honor knows as wefi as I do that we would be unworthy of our position if we went into the camp of odt enemy for witnesses. Recorder Hackett — The letter is eiclndri. The deposition of Prof. Wm. Russell, ot Lancaster, Mass., was next read, as followii I know Daniel McFarland. he having conis to me^from Dartmouth College in the yot j 1849, for special instruction ia elocntioi; when ha came to me be was » cnltjvatel man in person, manners, and intellect ; wb(S he left me his character in these partwnlsn was the same ; he was a geatleman alwiyi; he was held in ^ood estimation by myaelf and by the other instructors and studtnUi I do Dot think I have seen liim since he left in 1850 ; he was always, while with me, a goat student, gentlemanly in his deportment, I favorite with his felfow students, and wiihs high ambition to succeed in life; he wu always respected. The deposition of ex-Oovemor Farwell, of Wisconsin was nezt read. He testifies la having known Mr. McFarland during (be years IBH. 1859. and 1860, and that hen- speated him as a lawyer, and aa a man; ht had been (Viendly with him, but not intimate; he also knew Mrs. McFarland ; they seemel devoted to each other. TEanxoHT 07 01. ATTsmr nnr. Dr. Austin Flint was then called and ex- amined by Mr. Gerry. I am a Professor of Medicine in BelleTW Hospital, and alio Consulting Physician to the Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Islanj. and the Foundling Hospital on Ward^ Island, and to the Department of Out-Door Poor of Bellevue Hospital ; my speeialit; il disease of the heart and lungs, and I have written several works on these epecialitiei! I visited Daniel McFarland at the Toombt, the first Sunday of the present month, snd made an exammation of him, physicsllf. with reference to diseases of the lungs »m , heart. The action of the heart is active I above what is known; the canaes of Fanc- I tional disorder of the heart are various; io- poverished condition of the blood is one; long mental anxiety ia another; those an the more important ones; organic dtseaset have their special signs, and we find thatil is not organic by the absence of these sign)- I Q, Do yon uiscover any functional dil- order of the heart T A. Nothing more than I the increased frequency; I do not at thii moment remember the exact frequency of the pulse ; I think it was over 100, but I do THE RIOHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 75 ot remember exactly ; I should say it was hnormal; the frequency of the pulse varies; hey vary from about 40 to 90 ; 72 is usually tated as the mean frequency; I made no »ther examination of him; 1 remember that lis pulse was above 100. ILLNESS OF BSOOBBEB HACXSTT. At the conclusion of Dr. Flint's testimony, £r. Graham moved that the Court adjourn m account of the illness of Recorder Hack- jtt District- Attorney Garvin concurred in he motion, and the Court acyoumed until klonday, 25th. April 25.-— Trial resumed. The Recorder aeing quite well The court room was crowded with both sexes. The first witness John Orr, Assistant Warden at the City Prison, testified that the prisoner could not deep, and used to read in nis cell at night. Reuben A. Vance, Out-door Physician of the Bellevue Hospital, testified that he ex- tmined the prisoner's condition, and found 'coDji^tion of the brain developed. This witness further testified that he be- lieved the prisoner absolutely insane when he fired the pistol at Richardson. Mr. Qraham at this point stood up and said that some city papers had reproduced an article from some Western paper, which stated that he (Graham) had gone to the District Attorney and disavowed his con- duct in the trial with regard to Mrs. Cal- houn. He wished to state that neither to the District Attorney nor to any other hnman being did he make such statement. The District Attomev corroborated Mr. Graham's statement. Ihe court then ad- journed. April 26. — The court-room was crowded. Dr. Yance was again examined, and testified to the irrational manner of the prisoner. To the question, What is the particular form of insanity with which the prisoner was suffering at the time of the shooting, he replied, *' A perversion of mind on all sub- jects—a mania.'' Durinff the examination the witness said he was called by the defence and testified for the prosecution ; also testi- fied in the Chambers case, and said that Chambers was itoi insane. Chambers said he had triumphed over all the doctors but witness. Dr. Parsons, physician to the New York Oity Lunatic Asylum since 1837, testified ^hat expressions of a desire to commit suicide Would indicate the existence of insanity under <^ertain circumstances. He thought the love of a man for his wife, and her leaving him for another, would be very likely to lead to insanity. A pulse beating from 110 to 120 would lead to the disease of the brain. At three o'clock, the District Attorney Announced the death of Judge Russell, where- upon, after the usual eulogies from the lead- ing counsel, the Court adjourned. April 27. — The court opened at 11 A.M. rhe insanity business being under consider- ition, one of the jurymen compared it to a long and tedious sermon of which every body was tired. Edward P. Niver, night watchman at the city prison, testified, to the general sleep- lessness of the prisoner. Frequently saw a light burning late at night in the cell of the prisoner ; often complained that he coiild not sleep. Dr. Hammond came to the conclusion that the congestion of the brain with which the prisoner safiered was the cause of his having committed the deed. All the indications Jf the prisoner's case led witness to the opinion that McFarland was insane at the time, and he thought that if he kept away from the Tribune office he would not be likely to ex- plode as he did. April 28. — Horace Greeley was in th« witness box, testifying to various conversa- tions which he had had with the prisoner concerning his domestic troubles, previous to the shooting of Richardson. Mr. Greeley said he first met Richardson in Kansas, in May, 1859, and that he became connected with the Tribune the following winter. Counsel for the prisoner put certain lead- ing questions as to the Astor House wedding, but the Recorder ruled them out as irrele- vant. Counsel said they proposed to show that the witness had used blasphemous language both as to the prisoner and the Recorder, also, that the witness and certain other parties were all united in a common bond, and were biassed to exculpate them- selves by inculpating others. Mr. Greeley admitted having written an editorial in the Tribune on this subject, headed ** Revenge," but denied that he had ever used profane language in an interview which a certain newspaper reporter (Isaac G. Reed) had put into his mouth as the result of an interview. 'J'he witness, in reply to another question, said he had understood from McFarland, that after the first shooting affair he had resigned all ownership of his wife. Witness admitted having given prisoner letters of recommendation at various times. He also admitted writing the Calhoun letter to Rev. Mr. Beecher, while Richardson was at the Astor House. Counsel asked with what view was that letter written, but the District Attorney objected, and the objection was sustained by the Court. Mr. Samuel Sinclair, publisher of the Tribune^ was next placed on the stand. His testimony related chiefly to his acquain- tance with the prisoner, and to various interviews with him, in the presence of his wife, Oliver Johnson and other parties, in the spring of 1857. Counsel for defence objected to going so far back. The defence claimed that the prisoner was maddened by the intercepted letter, March 10th, 1867, whereas these interviews preceded that. The District Attorney, on the other hand, contended that they had the right to follow the life of the prisoner through those years, to show that he was not insane and had no 76 THE BIOHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. predisposing symptoms of insanity. Mr. Attorney, whose witness he was, complained Graham characterized this as *' weak, flimsy, that he could not hear him. disreputable logic," and as showing the Graham. We'll make him speak so yoall weakness of the prosecation in their efforts hear him in a few minutes. He'll say som^ to tie the defence down, and then trying to thing you won't want to hear. leap the limits themselves had laid down. And really Graham was right. The mo- The District Attorney said they proposed raent witness was turned over to the defence, to show that, in this conversation, an agree- Mr. Graham asKed him, " How often have ment was entered into by husband and wife, you abandoned your wife ?" There was an As the other side had travelled over the immediate change in the voice of the wit- prisoner's whole life, they could not be cut ness, when he replied, " Only once," and thea off from going into some portion of his life stated that Justice Ledwith had signed tlie also in rebuttal. warrant for his arrest. Finally the question was allowed, and then Charles G. Stone, of Hartford, testified Mr. Sinclair proceeded to give the details of that he knew McFarland since 1863 ; knew the verbal agreement between the prisoner him to be a drinking man ; under the inflo- and his wife to separate, with which our ence of liquor he was morose, unpleasant, readers are already sufficiently familiar. The and irritable ; McFarland came to my office prisoner, after the separation had frequently and showed me a letter, saying if he saw any said to him he was determined that Rich- more such letters he would shoot Richardscnu ardson should never live with Mrs. McFar- To Mr. Graham. I was clerk in the en- land. Even if married, they would not live rolment office under McFarland ; I was dis- together, as he would shoot him. charged, and considered him the cause of — — my displacement; I avowed publicly ray KTRAORDiNART SCENES AT THB TRIAL— THE RE- hostility to him; McFarlaud did not drink LBNTiNo OP WITNESSES UPSET BY COUNSEL FOR Hiore than othcr men in responsible positions. DEFENCE — SINGULAR REVELATIONS — A REN- AKOTHEB SCEKE. coNTRE BETWEEif OPPOSING COUNSEL-ALMOST ^ woman of fifty-thrce years of age was A FIGHT-THB COMBATANTS SEPARATED BY ^-^^^^ ^^^ ^hc Staud, who SWOre that shc had MCFARLAND. geeu McFarlaud drunk. Counsel for defence April 29.— The trial was adjourned at an ^e^^ly worried that woman's life out on early hour to-day owing to the funeral of cross-examination. She was asked how ghe City Judge Russell, which took place from knew it was liquor. Grace Church at three o clock. But the few j^^g ^^^g^ ^ It ^lakes no difference what hours durmg which the trial progressed were j ^now, I know it was Uquor. m^ificant for the scenes and byplay; which |^^^ Graham. Can't you try and remem- added more than usual mterest to the pro- ^^^ ^y^^^ ^hat was ? ceedings. The idea of Mrs. Lane. I've remembered aU Fm going EEBUTTING TESTIMONY to remember, is to overthrow the theory of the defence and Judge Davis then handed in as evidence to disprove in this case, at least, the insanity ^or the prosecution the certified decree in under which McFarland is said to have la. the habeas corpus case for the possession of bored when he shot Richardson. In order to ^h® children. upset the voluminous testimony of the de- Mr. Graham then remarked that the prose- fence on that point, it needs very respectable cution were witnesses, and men whose testimony cannot BAKING ALL THE GUTTERS be undervalued, much less overthrown. The ^f ^ew York to furnish evidence against value of the testimony of one of these rebut- McFarland— when Mr. Davis, who assists in tmg witnesses was shown tp.day by Mr. Gra. ^y^^ prosecution, got up excitedly and said: ham's cross^xamination of Mr. Howell. He This is an interruption, an outrage. The was asked in how many different businesses ^^^ ^^ ^ome when we wiU lose our pa- he had been. tience Graham We want to show whether you Mr.'Craham. Why not lose it now? are a shiftless man or not. Mr. Davis then characterized the conduct The witness replied that he had been a of the counsel for the defence as infamous, as dentist, hair-pm raanufaoturer. a da^erreo- something never heard of before in a Court typist, newspaper editor, tarm hand drug ^f Law, where witnesses the most innoceni clerk, selling patent rights, inspector of cus- ^^^^ g^ bitterly assaulted and slandered, toms, and in other government employment ^his was said only a few minutes before Mr. Graham. What do you call yourself? ^^le adjournment of the Court, and left Grsr (a giggle ) Do you consider yourself a jack- j^am no opportunity to reply. But the mo- or-all-trades or do you have any parUcular ment the Judge had left the court-roomGra- trade ? What do you call yourself ? j^am walked excitedly up to Mr. Davis and Howell. I call myself an inventor. ' ^ Graham. So should I, (a titter.) SHOOK HIS FIST Holdrido^e Dewery, a clerk in the Custom- right under the nose of the prosecuting offi- house, was next examined. The moment cer, and told him that he was a '* mean coir- this man csime upon the stand, the District ard." Graham continued, " I'll lick you u» THE RlOHAKDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 77 lire minates. Let as settle it now.'* It voald have come to blows between opposing eoansel, had they not been interfered with . by the prisoner, McFarland, who separated the combatants. Extraordinary coincidence I A man on trial for his life preventing blood- shed! The affair has created intense ex- citement aronnd the City Halli and this afternoon is the great talk of the town. For- tnnately, it occurred after the Court had adjourned. Mat 2. — This was a field-day in the trial. The morning hours passed by rather slowly, as the expectation was great all the time, it l|eing well-known that two of the leading actors in this extraordinary drama were to be in Court, and to be placed on the stand. The only important testimony in the morn- ing was that of Mr. Pomeroy, who swore that McFarland offered to sell the evidence of his wife's debauchery for $100, as a sensation for the Democrat to offset the ravings of the Tribune, Mr, Pomeroy, however, on cross- examination could not swear when the pris- oner was pointed out to him that he was the same man who offered him the copy. After recess, the great sensation of the trial came off. Three witnesses of no great im- portance had given their testimony, when suddenly the name of Mrs. Bnnkle (Mrs. Calhoun) was called. She at once came out of a corner of the court-room and walked firmly up to the witness stand. She was dressed in a dark dress with black velvet cloak, and a hat with feather. She made at once a very favorable impression upon the audience, all of whom stared at her suffi- ciently long to throw her into fits, as was the case with another woman on this trial not many days since. But Mrs. Calhoun was well composed on the stand. She did not speak loud, nor did she say too much ; answered all the questions very readily, and seemed to rely for protection on the Court, should counsel attempt to brow^beat her. But counsel did not. She constantly looked up to the Judge, and watched particularly what he had to say. Whether she did so to escape the glances of the prisoner or those of the lawyers for the defence^ is difficult to say. Certain it is, that she turned her he&d constantly to Recorder Hackett, as if im- ploring him to stand by her. Her testimony given in a straightforward manner proved that McFarland was. delighted with the idea at the time that his wife went on the stage ; that not only did he consent to her earning her livelihood in that manner, but he formed part of those who were constantly consulted in regard to this new mode of life laid out for Mrs. McFarland. There was a long argu- ment between counsel whether the witness should be permitted to explain in the letter believed to contain the letters J. R. Y., and when the question was finally admitted, she said audibly after glancing at the letter, "you.** A sort of titter ran through the court-room when the answer was made. On cross-examination, Mr. Graham was rather gentle with her. She apparently was a match for him. Only once he called her '* woman,*' when he immediately apologized, and said '* lady.** Still the answers he ob- tained were unsatisfactory to the defence. To the question, how often she had seen the District Attorney, she replied, " Not at all.*' Neither had she seen Mrs. McFarland for some time past. Graham was nonplussed entirely, and made her cross-examination very short. Mr. Davis made a speech alluv.- ing to the manner in which the lady on \hB stand had been spoken of by the defence, during which Mrs. Runkle fCalhoun) wept bitterly. It was reported in Court that Mrs. McFarland was in the court-room, but it was denied by those who ought to know. CONCLUSION OF TESTIXONT. Mat. 3. — The prosecution continued to examine witnesses for rebutting testimony to-day, but did not conclude. The witnesses examined were nearly all ladies, among whom was Mrs. McFarland's mother, Mrs. Sage, Mrs. Calhoun's sister, and her mother, Mrs. Gilbert; also. Miss Lizzie Sinclair. They all testified to the prisoner's brutal and extraordinary conduct toward his wife, and not any of them appears to have read the newspapers; at least Mrs. McFarland's mother said she never heard of the inter- cepted letter before. Dr. Echeverria was examined to prove that McFarland was not insane, but the prosecution did not make much out of him. The counsel for defence constantly objected, and so worried him that he did not establish much. There were a very large number of ladies in court to-day. Some of them, it is said,- waiting with anxiety to know the result of this trial, as they intend to follow Mrs. McFarland's example, and leave their husbands. Some, of the reporters at the trial appear to be aware of these facts, and point out some of these candidates for notoriety to any inquiring visitor. May 4. — Some new points were brought out at the trial to-day. Mrs. Sinclair, for instance, swore that she knew of the mar- riage engagement between Richardson and Mrs. McFarland a day before the first shoot- ing took place. This first shooting business was, for the first time, gone into at length to-day. An officer testified that when he made the arrest, at the time, he found Rich- ardson and McFarland fighting together and rolling in the gutter, with Richardson on the top, holding McFs^rland's arm, so as to pre- vent him from shooting. Another officer, who accompanied Richardson to his home in Washington place, stated that Mrs. McFar- land at that time came in, put her hands on Richardson's thigh and addressed hira as " my dear," asking him how he was gettina: along. The prosecution closed the rebutting testimony, and the defence immediately called for rebuttal witnesses to disprove the fac^ that McFarland was a drunkard. They brought on the stand a large number of 78 THE RICHARDSON-MoFAELAND TRAGEDY. bo&rdin^-hotise keepers and others, who hare known the prisoner for years. All of them swore that they saw him take a drink now and then, bnt never saw him nnder the influence of liquor. One of these witnesses said that his conduct toward his wife ap- peared to him always more like that of a lover than that of a husband ; there appeared to be" extraordinary good feeling between the two at all times, and his conduct was for years that of a gentleman and scholar. Some very interesting letters written by the prisoner, one to his " dear wife," were handed in as evidence. The last day*8 testimony was quite spicy, and in some respects important in so far as it showed that Richardson did have a pistol with him at the time he was shot. Mr. Nichols swore he took it away from him after the shooting. This has all along been denied by the witnesses from the Tribune office, and Mr. Graham to-day called atten- tion to the fact that they had not heard the truth from those witnesses. Fitzhugh Lud- low testified, on being recalled, as follows : " I remember the prisoner showing me a let- ter from Mrs. Calhoun, without date ; but that appeared to be written in 1867 ; McFar- land, in reading that letter, came to the letters * J. R. Y.,' and remarked at the time, * that means John Russell Young.'" Isaac G, Reed, the champion interviewer, who, it will be remembered, interviewed Horace Greeley shortly after the Astor House marriage, was on the stand, and cross-examined as to his interviews with the Tribwne philosopher. His testimony was very funny, in so far as it shows what a profane man this great and good Greeley really is. Mr. Reed said Mr. Greeley used almost the exact words I have used as to Mr. McFarland having given up all right to his wife, and as to his having to tes- ti^* against him, and the phrase as to his bemg a dirty d-- — d villain. To the Recorder — His exact words as to the Recorder were, he was « ** G^ — d d d little Judge." To Mr. Davis— I am not sure of the exact month ; I only know it was a day or two days after my interview with Mr. Beecher ; when I went m I did not represent myself as from any paper ; I did not go there to get it for the Sun ; I intended to publish it in the Sun, but if circumstances had been different I should have gfiven it to any other paper ; I got forty dollars, I think, for it from the Sun ; I think it was rather cheap; Mr. Greeley talked to me most freely ; I so published in a card ; I emasculated the oaths ; I think he swore five times to my statement of one ; if I had left out the oaths, no journalist would have believed it was a true account. SEVEBAL LETTEB8 were introduced to-day, one by Mrs. McFar- land to her '' darling husband," as follows : Manchester, November 21, 1859. "My Darling Husband: — I received your letter of yesterday, to-day. Wljy is it that I get your letter so soon, and you are so long getting mine? I cannot account for it. I am very particular about marking them, and yet they are so long reaching yon. I received the $50 inclosed. I shall give mother $6 of it for last week and this, and then I guess I shall order a bonnet. T shall try and get one you like, and I almost always suit you, don*t I ? The little, or great (I don't know which) cadeau has not arrived. It will to-night, and I am all anxiety to see what my dear husband has sent as a new proof of his love to me. I shall doubtless delighted, and shall write soon to tell yea all my impressions. I feel quite worried aboot your cold. I have every time you write rac, although it is quite common for these obsti- nate colds to hang on all winter. I wish yoa would go immediately to Dr. Gunnesey. He is a gentleman of intelligence, and certainly has more experience in colds than you haye. Will you, as a personal favor to me, go and see him if it gets no better in a week or so? You must do one or two things. Either go on a little trip to Philadelphia or Virginia, where it is warmer, or else I shall come on and nurse you. This taking a wet sheet by yourself, without any one to tuck yoa up in bed, is ruinous. You will tell me exactly how it is the next time you write, won't you ? I shall feel very anxious if you are hot frank with me. I was very deeply affected by your letter; and all you said about our mi!4understandings was very pam- ful to me. Not violently painful ; but it grieved me to think that in the midst of so much anxiety you have been suffering, that you should have had those things to troabie you, too. Believe me, even if I had not known how much I loved you, separation would have taught me. I find all my phi- losophy tried to the utmost to support the thought of 80 long an absence from you. '* You doo't know how many lonely hoars I spend, how much I worry about you, and how much I regret that I ever was perverse or obstinate. It is impossible perhaps that two persons should never do each other wrong often. That is the bane of all love and affection ; the impossibility of a perfect understanding ; but there are always atone- ments as compensation, and there is nothinir that cannot become forgotten, or so we'i forgiven that it is hardly remembered. Dod^ mistrust my affection, and believe I love yoo as dearly, a thousand times more so, than two years ago. Write me particularly, exactly when you receive this. It is mailed at a quarter of four, Monday afternoon. Write exactly respecting your cold, won't you ? or I shall be very uneasy. "Your loving wife. "Abbir McFarland." *'P. S. — Mother sends her love. She is sitting in her room making my carpet." Letters were also read written by Mrs Sage to Percy and to McFarland, showius anxiety to have Percy go to Massachasetta THE RICHABDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. 81 rash to hear Mr. Graharn's sninininR -he case, began at an early hour and led long after all hope of (tettinj; Into nrt-room must have been abandoned •y the most sanguine ruslier. 'I'lie of ladies was overwhehuing ; and the attaches of the General Sesaiona, under express orders to admit nn without a paas, unable to withstand teals of ihe much-jostled fair ones, fell n a technirality which would have 'edit to the subtlest intellect that ever ed itself at the criminal bar, and ad- the entire feminine throng, on the tliat their orders only related to man, and did not operate against ce- lieings. Mew York bar was out in force. Scores legal heads "thai all men know "were ersed among the audience. The roedi- feii!>ion was also largely repreaented by uished members. IFDOE D&TIS LEATES THE CASE. Graham did not arrive till 11: OB. . Garvin, Davis, and Gerry were in laces when Mr, Graham came in, and lent later Mr. Davis stepped to the bade Judffe Huckett farewell, and »e of the cafe, to the great surprise at the initiated. 'things being in readiness. Judge i,l)owed to Mr. Gralunii: who, amid *. ' silence, arose to begin the final e before the Court and jury for McFarland'a life. The eminent coun- who, notwithstanding all his strength, lensitire and emotional aa a icirl, was moved, and his voice Uirilled witii ibie pathos, as he i^aid : It please the Court, 'I.RMRN Off TUE jury: How oonsoling -w this diiy to this afflicted, sorrowing, art-broken man 1 He is at last where no UBuae lo dread to be, before a jury >eers, the highi'Sl social privilege guar. to him by the laws of his country, 1 his bosom for many a dreary hour he .rried a heart of anguish, likened to the nether mill-stone, figuratively og. may be almost said to be light a,f [Eipotion.] Death, stripped of the terrors and odium sought to be at- to it in his case, might be to him a ' of repose. Long enough has he en- ■SLimii OF THE HEBCILESS STOBH, ) does not now trust tliat he will find inm in your justice, and that that jus- ill be tempered with mercy, as you l»ea ei pact, to be forgiven? [Great on, several of the jurors weeping.] ^ou, i»y fellow-men, throngh me. his larthly destiny. In him are nnited the' wrongs of a dishonored husband and an in- jured and outraged father. His atory can be briefly told. He hag loved not wisely, but too well. You have heard some of the particulars of his sad •, and have they not gone to the very depths of your aoula? Has not eauh one ot you, during the developments of thia un- natural investigation, asked ynurHelves over and over again the question, sliould I havo done less than he did, or might I not have dune even more ! Who can tell the capa^ city of the human mind to withntand or re- sist those preaaures againat which it may have to contend. Who can overturn the work of Omnipotence? Who can altar or reverse its fiat! If we turn our eyea to TBAOKLESS, UKVEABUEEO BEALMS 07 BPACE which abound with the evidencea of the vast- ness, power, and wisdum of the Author of All, how are we overwhelmed by tlic gran- deur of the contemplation, and sFirivelleit by a sense pf our own meauueas I Which of us could be found irreligious enough to (|iies- tion or seek to interfere with the lawn which regulate and control the raiivements of those countless systemR, compared lo which sphere is as a speok. and with which iible Who can check the light, or restrain ihe heat which iaauea from THE sint t Who can return to tiie ([ueen of night hei silvery whiteness, or despoil her of ajiy of her procreant fulnesa? Who can appoint the time for the blowing of the wind, or order the appearance of the lighinin<.'S, oi' the advent of the day ! These are not within the scope of human power ; these are not among the human prerogatives. It ia to this category we assign the huiiian mind. It is the breatli of the Deity, it is a tire of his kindling. It is the immortal soul, bound on its way to eternity. It contains ihe elements communicated to it from its Divine source. rt is as impracticable for us to extinguish it ultimately aa to create it anew, or to endow it with a difierent character. There is u point op to which its operations may be said to be vicious or criminal, but heyund that point its action ia auspended for secLdar pur- po.'ies, leaving its possessor an involuntary agent in the execution and INFLICTIOn OF DITIHE VEKOEAHCE. What is the allegation in this prosecution? Not, may it please the Court, and ynu. gen- tlemen of the jury, that the individual who has passed, to Ills grave has met an umeriled doom at the heads of this defendant, nul that if he sullied the marrital honor of his neigh- bor, he didn't disentitle himself to live: but merely this, that however juat or righteous his reward, he received it at the hands of an unauthorized instrumentality, [aeueatioji,] That must depend upon the mental THE EICHARDSON-McFAELAND TRAOEDy. COlTDinOIT 07 TEE SLAT£B | at the time of Ihe commiBsion of his act ,' This, and this alone, is the consideration which raeels jon at the threshold, and is not , to leave yon until you reach the close of this solemn proceeding. And here I may be permitted to return the thanks of myself and my learned brother associated with me in this defence to the Conrt for the amenity we have experienced at its hands from the first morning of this trial to the dose of this investigation. Your Hi^nor's responsibility (turning and bowing to the Court) has been great, and your trust hue been most sacred. Many important anestiuns have arisen here, which hau to be ecided upon TEE BPUB OF THE HOKEHT. They have had to be summarily disposed of to enable the wheels of this trial to roll on : every decision yon have made has been prompted by humanity of motive, by purity of intuition, and by an unquestiou&ble spirit of impartiality. But, gentlemen of the jury (turning to the Jurors), our obligations to you are over- whelming. We have taxed your patience and time beyond all precedent. We know not how to thank you. Your aacrifices have been frreat Remembering the great moral as well as social duty of this occasion, in later life, it may be a gratiBoation to you to revert to the incidents of this tri^. QOD obaut tou hat be BPABEO to see the good results which may issue from your verdict on this solemn occasion, and that your reSections, as yonr memory reverts to the incidents of this unexampled trial, will prove to you some compensation for the loss you have been compelled to sustain. This is the third occasion, within twelve years, although a single man myself, that 1 have had the distinguished honor conferred upon me of npholding and defending the saobeshebb of tee KABBIA&E BHATIOH. Within that period three of the most ei- citinjf trials thai ever occurred in this conn, try. and that have ever occurred, have taken place, and it has been my distinguished privilege to appear in every one of these trials. Why it is. when I cannot practically euier into sympathy with such a relation, thai I have been subjected to appear in these cases. 1 cannot tell. 1 desire on t' ' sion, as 1 have on other occasions, to say that I regard marriage as sacred ; and per- haps if 1 had entertained a less regard for the relation X might have contracted it. But the veneration with which I re^d it such as to induce me to maintain on e occasions the sacredneas of the relation. 'I'he portraiture of woman's nature tran- scends the powers of any individual, no matter how great his gfenins. To do justice to her charms, to exhibit fairly her aflection. and present her as she is, nas challenged and exercised the brightest imaginings of thi orator, the greatest exertions of the aathor, the pen of the poet, the brush of the painter, und the chisel of the sculptor. The extreme delicacy and aEnsiTIVElTESS 07 WOHAITB C0RBTIT1I. TIOIT never intended her for masculine pnranits which are so well adapted to the sturdy attri tiutes of man. What more power dnes ehi desire, what more can she have, than is hrr the marriage relation T 1'here. within thi home, the exercise of her power is nnliniilei forming and monlding a husband's deiD Q. The potter cannot have more powt T the clay, in forming one vessel nnti honor and another to dishonor, than has th the attributes of her husband. 1 there is nnhapplness in tite domestic circli ' I can cause it to disappear. Povertv cease be felt amid the consolations or honu and all 80BB0V CEASES the presence of her smiles. Bntlettli words of King Lemuel in praise of hisqaeei Scriptures, describe the attributes of tli " Who can find a virtuous woman T for hi Erice is far above rubies. The heart of hi usband doth safely trust in her, so that t shall have no need of spoil. She will do lu good and not evil all the days of her Ul Her clothing is silk and purple. Herbs band is known in the gates wnen he sittel among the elders of the land. She makei fine linen and selleth it, and delivereth girdl to the merchant. BTBEHQTE AHD HOHOB ABE KEB CIAII IRQ, and she shall rejoice in time to come. 61 openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in h tongue is the law of kindness. She kwkf well to the ways of her household, and calc' not the bread of idleness. Ber chi1dr«ii ri np and call her blessed ; her husband ab and he praiseth her. Many daughters hi' done virtuously, but thon excellest them ■ Favor is deceitful, and b«auty is vain; bat A TOKAir THAT 7XABBTH THE URU she shall be praised. Olveher of the Trait i her hands, and let her own works praise her the gates." Mr. Graham delivered this quotation ami absolute silence, with surpassing eloentioM' effect, and it made a deep impression npo the jury and the audience, more especii^l the ladies, to whom it seemed to come U revelation. When the excitement which k lowed the delivery of this Scriptural passu had somewhat subsided, Mr. Graham pi ceeded to comment on this as a case of \ KDBDEB OB HOTEIIIO. I (Sensation.) There must be do compromi I verdict here. {Renewed sensation.] If 1 iMcFsrland ii guilty at all, he is guilty murder, and the juror who would conp THE RIOHARDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 83 suae him into a State Prison would violate his oath. If he is not convicted of murder, iben he is not guilty ; there is no medium )oint here. And so I place this man before bis jury. We want no strategy in this case, ^e want no such diplomacy as is sometimes :alled into requisition by the prosecution, rhen, wanting to get a man into State 'rison, they indict him for murder, and then propose to exercise humanity, and suggest a louviction for manslaughter. Juries are ometimes misled in this way, I repeat it; his is a case of murder, or nothing, and I so mt it. The beloved James T. Brady, on the TBIAL OF COLE FOB HTTSDEB, icomed the idea of asking a charge for con- ricting his client of manslaughter ; and inally, upon that position taken by this dis- anguished counsel, the jury rendered a ver- iict of acquittal. There must be no com- )romi8e here. That would be a violation of ^oar oaths. This case has got to be looked itraight in the face. If this prisoner is re- iponsible for his act at all, he is responsible or Uie highest crime known to the law. If lis menUu condition was such as to shield lim from responsibility, he is entitled to ac- piittaL Another principle is. if there is any doubt ~«nd you will presently hear me present this |iM8tion to the Court, for it is still matter of MHktest as to whether it is law — if you enter- labi any reasonable doubt as to whether Daniel McFarland was sane or insane at the time of this shooting, you have got to give tfua doubt in his favor, AKD ACQXriT EIM. Because, in convicting him of murder, you iQStain the allegation in this indictment that ke shot Albert D. Richardson with malice Aforethought. Another principle is this, and I shall refer to it during this argmnent again, that a man Btty be insane as to one man, and perfectly itae as to all the rest of the world ; that he nabe BBFBnrED OF EIB xiin) OB one subject and as to one man, and as to Vfsrything else, be entirely sane. Aaother principle to which I wish to call Toor -attention, and which I shall elaborate lM>re fiilly hereafter, is that men of science diftr In respect to diseases of the mind ; as to whether insanity is a disease of the soul or of the body. You will readily perceive that if you consider the human mind to exist only throuf;h some chemical influence acting on the bram, you at once nSTBOT THX nCHOBTALITT OF THE SOUL. Until after his death the state of a man's brain can never be ascertained. Before that it is merely matter of speculation. 13 ut there are tnree theories among alienists. One class insists that the soul is independent of the body, and that insanity is a dtsoase of the soul ; this is the psychological theory. Another class holds the somatic theory — that insanity is a corporal disease ; a dis- ability of the physical substance of the brain. A third class takes an intermediate ground, and holds that the soul is supreme, and can impart and does impart disease to the body. But this is one of THESE OBEAT MTSTEBIES which men of science cannot fathom, hut only speculate about. It will be for you to exercise your judgment as to the condition of the prisoner at the time he committed the act. For the purpose of enabling you to judge how strong the feeling is that is aroused in a man's breast when his honor as a husband is compromised, I desire to call your attention to the marriage relation as exhibited in the Scriptures. To judge as to the effect of such a feeling, you cannot refer to any human book. That would be an absurdity ; for the Deity created the marriage relation, and you have got to go to His book to find what im- portance He attached to it. It would be an absurdity for me to read to you a human book, when the Bible tells you what mar- riage was created for. I will read Scripture here as I would read an ordinary book, to show what a man's feelings ought to be to- wards the wife he loves. Being of Divine creation, its sacredness was imparted to mar- riage when Eve was formed from THE BIB OF ABAK, and Adam said, ** This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they twain shall be one flesh." Now, gentlemen to be one flesh is to have one set of feelings. If they are properly mated, they both feel the same. When the feelings of one are outraged, the other's feel- ings are outraged also. They are no more twain, but one flesh. Whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. This furnishes us with an idea of how intensely husband and wife are to love one another. They are ONE IN SPIBIT AS IN BODY. Their hearts are to beat in unison, and they are to reciprocate one another's love. But, if a woman don't love a man, and the man loves the woman, the man's feelings are just as strong as if the woman returned his love, and any outrage upon his feelings oir upon his honor through her is just as serious as if the hearts of the husband and wife beat in unison. I desire to call yonr attention to a passage in Proverbs, recited by Mr. Brady on THE TBIAL OF HB. SICKLES, in Washington, because it is only from the Bible that you can understand what mar- 84 THE RIOHAKDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. riageis. This is going to the sonrce from which it emanated. The' feelings of a man at the idea of a wife's infidelity are significantly portrayed in Proverbs, 6th chap., from the 27 th to the 35th verse : *' Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned ? Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned ? So he that goeth into his neighbor's wife : whoso toucheth her shall not be innocent. But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding ; he that doeth it de- stroys his own souL A wound and dishonor shall he get " — that is what the Scriptures say — '' and his reproach shall not be wiped away, for JEALOTJST IS THE BAOE OF A HAN. Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though thou giv- est many gifts." Yes, continued Mr. Graham, the dis- honored husband will not spare in the day of vengeance. This destiny is a certainty ; the wisdom of Solomon, which was inspired, said it, and so it must be, and so it will be until human nature is changed, and different feelings and impulses are bestowed upon it. [Sensation.] Jealousy VIVIFIES THE AKGTJISH OF A HAN ; the very consciousness of having been com- promised in his connubial relations is the rage of a man. Rage signifies something un- governable; whether it ' be what we call in- sanity or not, it is akin to it; it enslaves the injured husband ; it seems to be unavoidable and inevitable. The meaning of the Scrip- ture is that when jealousy takes possession of a man's heart he will not spare in the day of vengeance ; that is, he cannot spare ; for the Deity did not make humanity strong enough to withstand provocation like that. We thus have a definite expression upon the subject of a husband's rage at the idea of dis- honor. Take the Scriptural view of adultery in the Seventh Commandment, and you will perceive this Mr. Richardson, not satisfied with violating one Commandment, breaking two. The Seventh Commandment is, ** Thou shalt not commit adultery ;" the Tenth Com- mandment is, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife." A man may commit adul- tery with a woman, and yet not covet her, as against her husband. This man was not satisfied with going to the point of adultery, but he meant to take this woman from her husband. Now let us see what the Bible doctrine is in regard to the punishment of the adul- terer. In Leviticus, 20th chapter, 10th verse, it is enacted : '*And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that com- mitteth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be PUT TO DEATH." In Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verse 22 written : *' If a man be found lying with a w< married to a husband, then they shall of them die, both the man that lay wit woman and the woman : so shalt thoi away evil from Israel." Mr. Graham next proceeded to the propositions, and asked the Court to be mind that no person from the TBIBTJNE OFFICE was asked whether Mr. McFarland was at the time of the shooting ; nor was an produced from the station house to ; that he became sane during the nigl that he was not insane the following mor How do the prosecution expect to g< if they concede this case to us ? They not put upon the stand a single witnc prove, from the two days previous t< shooting on the 25th of November, wh left his place of business, until a long after, that he was in a state of sanity, sation.] The reason was, that when < Allaire put his hand upon him, he wai as deranged as at any time afterward the prosecution had not known the t and been afraid to produce the witnesse whole station house could have been em into the court room to prove that M land, when he reached the station h was as COOL AS AN IBEBEBa. tSensation.J And the reason for thi eing done, is the fact that for several after the 25th of November, though h locked up in prison, he was just as hot the day of tlie commission of the act ' conceae that it is out of their power to fi a single portion of the testimony cov this case from the time Mr. Coughlii him last in his oflBce on the 23d of Nove down to half-past 8 o'clock on the tn of the 25th of November ; and that i reason why I had determined not to Sdi this case, until the learned patriarch Hon. Hugh Maxwell), whom I met y( day, Ucensed as a lawyer in 1809, told *• I am older than you ; your du^ is U this case before the jury. Though yoo them and tax their patience, yoa must sider that as a burden put upon then their oaths. If I was in your place, my age and superior wisdom, I would form that duty this day." THE LEGAL VIEW. Proceeding more directly to the legal Mr. Graham called the attention of the C to the following requests to charge : As to the (alleged) shooting of the dec< by the defendant on March 13, 1867, cannot be taken by the jury as eviden malice; unless the prosecution have sat them by pro9f beyond all peradventure that shooting was felonious, and thei that it was not done in a state of insani THE RICHARDSON-MoFARLAND TRAGEDY. 85 G^raham requested the Court also to that if the mry found that the shoot- \he 25th of November, 1869, was done isane man, then that the shooting of 13th must be eliminated altogether 6 case in the making up of their ver- that the same principles applied to mts alleged to have been made by the r to shoot the deceased, -raham also asked the Oourt to charge, le malicious purpose, the depravity of he sufficient understanding and will lowever, actually exist ; " in other the jury are to be told that before a find McFarland guilty of murder ve to find that at the instant of the f the pistol he had a malicious pur- tiat his heart was inhabited by de- with a sufficient amount of under- ^ and will to make him conscious of B was doing, that the Court of Ap- %d held that if there was any evi- > sustain CHS DEFENCE OF INBAKITT, amalgamated with the whole case, 3t be disproved by the prosecution. on.] he prosecution had attempted in this it their witnesses were scarcely a 's guard in number, while the de- lad called forty-fonr witnesses. Dr. nd and Dr. Yance among them, that nstantly beyond a doubt. itatute says if a man's mind is dis- t the time of the commission of a act, it is ground of exoneration. onor knows that if a man conceives rous intention, and executes it on the is TO GO TO THE GALLOWS uting that intention. Why does not ) work both ways? and, if a man's wiped out on the spot, why is not round of exoneration ? [Sensation.] nsdom of the common law is deep — 3 greatest system of human wisdom ^en to the world. The common law t excuse the man who makes himself ind slays his neighbor; he has no • set up his immorality against his lity. So, if a man make his neighbor and his neighbor slay him, he but the consequence of his own wrong the slayer is not responsible. And, ilbert D. DSOK MABE THIS PBISOKEB BBUKX, slew Richardson, why should he be the penalty of his fife for his irre- lity ? The man who lays a slow ;o the unhappiness of his neighbor, Idens and frenzies him, ought to be sd to take the consequences of what McParland. did not madden himself, was maddened by the combination ! unveiled and exhibited io the evi- Mr. Graham then referred to the case of Amelia Norman, indicted in the Court of General Sessions in 1846, for assault with intent to kill. The ladies listened to the narrative of this case with indescribable interest The facts were, that Amelia Norman had been led astray by a man who deserted her after he had ruined her, and who appeared determined to turn her over to tne fate which almost inevitably awaits a fallen woman. She was willing to give him up, but wanted some assistance from him to start her in respectable life; he refused, although she tried to soften him in every way. She surrendered herself to absolute despair, and, in a moment of frenzy, as he was entering the Astor House to take his dinner, she approached him on the step, appealing to him in piteous tones, and find- ing him inexorable, PLUNGED A XHIFE IN HIS BBEAST, which nearly took his life. She was tried, and acquitted on the ground of moral in- sanity; and when the verdict was rendered, the air was rent with cheern loud enough to be heard blocks away from the court-room. My brother, now in his ffrave, ivas Amelia Norman's counsel; the defence was moral insanity, btU not a witness W€is called to prove the fact ; it was left to the common sense of the jury whether, under the circumstances^ she was frienzied when the knife was used. Nor was evidence upon that point called in the Sickles case ; but it was leit to the COMMON SENSE OF THE JURY whether a man could be other than frenzied under the provocation. You do not want doctors, gentlemen of the jury, or anybody else, to tell you how you would feel if you went home this day, and found your moral household in ruin. [Sensation.] A tear moistens the public eye when a structure built by man's nands falls and buries its inmates; how much greater is the calamity when the moral household falls? In the case of Freeman, a colored man, tried in Cayuga county, in July, 1846, de- fended by the Hon. William U. Seward, upon the ground that he was an idiot or insane. The death of the prisoner occurred pending a mew trial, which had been ordered after his conviction by the jury, and a post-mortem examination of his brain proved that it was diseased — a most solemn WARNING TO JURIES FOR TIME TO COME. I refer also to the case of Cole, which was tried in Albany, in 1868. On the first trial, before Justice ingraham, the jury disagreed, but on the second, before Justice Hogebrom, he was acquitted. (7 Abbot, Pr. Rep. N. S., 321.) In that case. Cole was indicted for the homicide of Hiscock, a member of the As- sembly, who had destroyed the honor of his wife, a fact which was made known to Cole a day or two before the act. In that case the THE RICHAEDSON-McFAELAND TRAOBDY. flrat time he met the betraver of his wife he drew a pistol and ehot. The question arose whether his meeting Hiacocl; produced such an efTect upon his mind as to render him un^ accountable for hia acts. In that case the period of adultery had long since passed, and tlie knowledge of the facts had been cora- 1 municated to Cole several days before, ho that a sufficient time, in the judgment of the law, had elapsed for his passions to cool and for his reasoning powers to regain their Bway. Bnt, notwithstanding this lapse of time, the crashing weight of this domestic tragedy was such that the presence of the SETHBOKED HIB BSABOK. Now, although the wife of Daniel McFar- land was almost in cohabitation with Mr, Richardson froin the time of the desertion down to 186fl, yet the principal maddening cause at the time of the act, was the fact that they had possession of one of his sons, and if they carried out their programme in refer- ence to that son, it would transfer him from his natural parent to an artificial parent who wonid take from him the name of nis natural father, and substitute that of the adulterer. And these circomstances, and his inability to discover that youngest son. brotisht before his mind, in all their original freshness, those maddening causes which hud occurred nearly three years before. In the case of Cole, Mr. Brady, whose name can never be mentioned without the most melancholy reflections that we should have lost him, nor without the most pleasurable recolleotions tliat he ever should have existed, declined to accept for the prisoner the verdict of manslaughter, for he would rather die thoa be sentenced to the State prison. The jury retired, and ) Court, staling that i' ' ■ - e the moment before THE KOKBHT AFTEB THE EIILIHO, but were in doubt about the moment of the homicide. Under the directions of the Conrt that if they had any reasonable doubt of his sanity at the moment of the killing, they should ifive ihe prisoner the benefit of that doubt, tliey acmiilted him. I now ask your Honor to charge the jury in accordance with the charge of Judge Hoa;e- brom in that case, which I have modified merely liy substituting the words "Tribune Office" fur -Stanwix Hail," to make the Ian- guajie applicable to this case. If the jury believe that at the very time of the commission of the act alleged against him, from causes operating for a consider- able Icnglh of time beforehand, or recently, or suddenly occurring, the defendant was mentally unconscious of the nature of the act in whicli he was engaged, he must and Is legally irresponsible forit,— f/d.] If the defendant was deprived of his reason at the time the act alleged was committed, resulting either from a settled and well- established mental alienation, or from the pressure of overpowering weight of the cir- ('umstances occurring at the time, he ia W gaily irresponsible far whai he did,— [/iij ^ It the jury believe' that when the deceised entered the Tribune office he did not eipect to see the defendant, nor the defendait him, iind that, after he entered, the defendant vu moved to the commission of the act alleged against him by the sudden access and ujf- .qistible pressure of excited and ovcrwhehiiiiig passion, roused by the sudden and unex- pected siffht of the destroyer of his domeslic peace, or liira whom he supposed to be audi, iletlironing his reason, and pressing hiia on to the commission of this act under ths in- Suencc of an ungovernable frenzy, unsettling for the time his faculties and BQUironiDg in- .■canity in their place, he ia not reaponsiblt for the act,— [7rf ] There is no evidence that Ifr. HcFarlud -expected to see Mr. Richardson. On llu contrary he was there t^at evening to M Mr. Sincluir. Whenhe hadmet Mr. Bichanl son before, he had controlled hinself; bat al this time he encountered him when his mini was beyond biscontrol ; and retribatif«JDBti« STEERED BIOHABDBOV' on that occasion into contact witb the prti oner at the time he. was in that demCDtM condition, which rendered him the inTolim lary instrument in the execution of dirim tino heavenly vengeance. He next referred to the case of Mr. Sicklei which occQrred at the city of Washingtcn ii 1859, when he was indicted for killing Fhilii jlarton Key. The deceased, who was on intimate termi rfith Mr. Sickles, and had his confidence abused that confidence by seducing the will of his friend and benefactor. As on Sandsj he was passing the bouse, waving hjs hud kerchief as AV ABDLTEBOUB SIOKAl to her, his bad fortune had it, just aaBicb' ardson's bad fortune had it, that he raihrt to his death when he little expected it. Oh. Iiow just that retribution is, and how wll nould libertines do to consider when Ihff plan this moral demolition, that before thpy veachthe goal of their ambition Ihfy iu>T lie intercepted in their pursuitl As W fortune would have it, Mr. Sickles wasmiJf aware of his wife's infidelity the etenin? before, and. seeing the adulterous signal, b' rushed out in a perfect slate of frensy in'' temporary insanity, and slew the deteiiifl. giving him three wounds. The jurj- woolJ have sustained him if he had given bio three hundred. He flred, altogether, fum ••' five shots. He waa determined lo do ilif thing right, and this jury sustaired him a making a complete job of it. The pfiw cution claimed that it was a case of reiu»!';i' less revenge; bnt the jury, afler a in* occupying over four weeks, acquined ihi defendant, after an absence for deliberttici of about nn hour and a qaarter. In lh» case, Edwin M.Stanton and Hr. tirady wen Hvo of the counsel. c. THE RICHARDSON-MoFARLAND TRAGEDY. 89 w let nfl read to the jury and to your rfrom the argument of EDWIN M. BTANTOK, scretary of War, the ^reat War Min- f modem times, who directed the on- of this nation to the suppresRion of »nrrection reared in the land, and who buted more than any other person to rorable result Fie says : hat is the act of Adultery ? It cannot lited to a fleetinfiT moment of time. ronld be a mockery, for then the adult- rnild ever escape. But law and reason not human nature with any such ab- f. Tlie act of adultery, like the act of r, is supposed to include every proxi- let in furtherance of and as a means of nmiramation of a wife's pollution. This eatablinhed principle in American and h law. established from the time of hovell, as will he hereafter shown. If nlterer hired a house, furnished it " — rdtaioii hired a house, put a bed — THB OBATSir LIBEBTIITE, lie partition, so that he oould hear this UiQ wife even breathe. If he had had leency in his composition, he would not mi that bed where he did. He removed ■6, as the evidence shows, that he misrht Tery turn they made, and control the tients of this wife accordiufifly ; and that to have made her despise him, if she ipable of despising a craven. the adulterer hire a house, furnish it, *ovide a bed in it for such a purpose, ' lie be actcnstomed day by day, week Bk, and month by month, to entice her her husband's house, tramping with rough the streets to that den of shame, A act of adultery, and is the most ap- X one that is recorded in the annals of Ik' If, moreover, he hiEts grown so bold bake the child of the injured husband, tk daughter, by the hand, to separate HU her mother, to take the child to the of a mutual friend while he led the rr to the guilty den, it presents a case Ming all that has been within of cold, ins, remorseless lust." iX does not for one instant compare with Iquity of this man Richardson, for lOVAPPEO THE POOB XAITS CHILD, er that he might carry on this adultery he mother. When this thing started iltl not control her without taking the away from its father. . this is not the culminating point of )rou8 depravity, how much further it gof There is one point beyond, vretched mother, the ruined wife, has *i plunged into the horrible and revolt- tndition to which she is rapidly hurry- od which is already yawning before her. not that mother be saved from that ? shall it be done ? When a man has ob- I such a power over another man's wife le cannot only ENTICE HEB FBOM HEB HUSBAND'S HOUSE, but separate her fr<»ni her child for the pur- pose of guilt, it shows that by some means ne has acquired such an unholy mastery over that woman's body and soul that there is no chance of saving her while he lives ; and the only hope of her salvation is that God's swift vengeance shall overtak-^ him. The sacred glow of well placed domrsiic af- fection, no man knows better than your H(mor, grows brighter and brighter as years advance, and the faithful couple, whost hands were joined in holy wedlock in the morning of youth, find their hearts drawn closer to each other as they descend the hill of life to sleep together at its foot. [Profound sensa- tion, and weeping.] But lawless love is short-lived as it is criminal ; and the neigh- bor's wife so guiltily pursued by trampling down every human feeling and divhie law^ is speedily supported by some new object, and then the wretched victim is soon cast off, and swept through a miserable lifo and A HOBBIBLE DEATH TO THE GATES OF' HELL, unless a husband's arm shall save her. Who seeing this thing would not exclaim to this unhappy husband, hasten to save the mother of your child, although she be lost ajs a wife. Rescue her from the horrid adulterer, and may the Lord who watches over the l>ome ana the fa^nily guide the bullet and direct the stroke. [Sensation.] And when she is de- livered, who would not reckon the salvation of that young mother cheaply purchased by the adulterer's blood. Aye, by the blood of a score of adulterers? The death oT Key was a cheap sacrifice to save one mother from that horrible fate which on that Sabbath day hung over this prisoner's wife, and the mother of his child." And how let me read the peroration of Mr. Brady's remarks : ** And I will be permitted to say. whatever circumstances may result from the declara- tion, that, in view of all that has transpired in the city of Washington, to the citizens on this jury Sickles commits his life, his charac- ter, all that is to elevate him or keep him in existence (because in our entire confidence in the integrity and judgment of your Honor and this jury, we are convinced that no harm can cotrie to Sickles out of tliis trial) ; in view, also, of the BELATIONS OF KB8. SICKLES toward him before he came to this city; in view of what he knew from her. of the extending of this shawl from the mother to the child, which we suppose the evidence fixes on Key, Sickles might have gone anywhere else in the world but to New York, if he had not resented that indignity ; he could never have returned to the city of New York and been accepted for one instant among any of his former friends, [(ireat Sensation.] When this man Richardson led this woman from her husband's house in Amity street,, the husband had as much right 90 ^HB RIOHARDSON-MoFARLAND TRAGEDY. TO SHOOT HIX DOWir THE BT7LLET OF AK IITJITBEI) HITSBAN «s though Richardson had been gnilty of her takes effect upon the man who has invade forcible abduction. That is the law of the I the sanctity of his marital relations. I n Bible ; for one of the two parties is superior gard that as a strong moral lesson, whici and the other is inferior. There is no abso- should not be lost upon those who wouk lute equality in the Bible between man and trespass upon a husband's rights. We often wife. As I understand the law of the Bible, read of policemen attempting to arrest burg, it is that man was made for God and woman lars or other offenders, and when surprising for man ; that woman is the weaker vessel, them in the act of escaping with plunder, and is meant to be under the protection of are fired upon several times, without the the stronger vessel, man; and that any at- shots taking effect. These oflBcers of the t(»mpt from any quarter to interfere with law seem to escape — unless we regard them that supremacy, even though it be with the as encased in coats of mail — through some consent of the woman, is as much an infrac- miraculous agency. In such cases some uii- tiun of the husband's rights as though it seen power arrests and turns aside the hul- were the infliction of absolute violence either lets. But in the other case, where a frenzied upon her or upon him. [A distinct husband sets about the execution of his TTTsa TOOiff BOMT OP TTTO! STTiowo KTiTMSii *?'»s^?^- ^^^ proceeds to avenge the wrongs HISS FROM SOME OFTOT OTRONO MIHDED ^^^^ y^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^ to madness, one shot r. X, , :/ . '*^f ^^J . ^ ^ .• ^ generally effects the business ; and where this Gentlemen of the jury, the pomt which I jg the case it argues the extreme moral ju* wish you to carry m your nunds is thi» : that ^ice of the act. there is no phase of murder about this case. j desire to say further, ia this conneotion, There is no testimony to show that when that we do not attach much importance to - JI^* Jfc^arknd went to the rn^rme office, anything that the defendant may have 8ai4 Mr. Richardson was expected there either by ^.^ont the time of this shooting, becaase m him or by the inmates of the office. The consider that his tongue was not an iBdex to last time, m the evidence, when he inquired his mind ; his mind was frenned, md there for Mr. Richardson, was on the 19th of No- ^^g ^o connection between his tongue and vember, when he mquired of Mr. lanson ; his mind. In such a state of mind he would and the evidence shows that then his object j^ake, and did make, entirely different state- was to ascertain the whereabouts of his boy, ^lents to different persons. There wm because he knew that wherever Richardson neither reason nor harmony in the expres- was, there was the locality of his sions of his tongue, because there was m WIFE AlTD BOY. eounection between these expressions and the insane mind of the prisoner. Par the Another point which I wish at this time sanie reason. I attach no importance to thi to impress upon your minds, gentlemen, is fact that on the afternoon of that fkUl d^ that if McFarland was sane, and had wanted he told Mr. Billings that he was ^oing tottf to kill Richardson, he, could not have selected Park Hotel, but only to the fact that he w» «raore inauspicious spot than the Tribune on his way toward the Park Hotel Ml office. If he went into that office with a Nones, according to his evidence, tried t view to slay Richardson, it is folly to say that reason with Mr. McFarland but a few miBote when Richardson met him and put his eye before he went to the Tribune office, but ym npon him he quailed, because a braver man unable to do so. He' would not listen to than Daniel McFarland. if that be true, never ^„^ .-« . «^— ,.„-« *- .. , , lived. If he went where he was certain tp THE EEASOWINQ OF AHOTHne, to which I wish to call your attention a little out of place ; that is this : This prose- OQtion have left Mrs. McFarland before this Ounrt in the attitude of a KISTBXS8 INSTEAD OF A WIFE. [Sensation.] I want that distinctly borne in mind. We proved by Mrs. Anne Burns that ^he Female she saw married to Daniel McFar- land in Boston, in 1857, was the same woman who now wears the name of Richardson. The prosecution have dubbed her Mrs. Rich- ardson all through this trial, and yet they have not shown any divorce releasing her from her marriage with the prisoner. They bring her before this Court, and they leave her before this Court, as bearing the relation of mistress to her paramour, Richardson. [Great sensation.] And the reason of that distressing fact is this: To have brought in that marriage at the Aster House would have been to place Mrs. Calhoun in a most aaenviable position before the Court ; and to guard her from the consequences of such an investigation, the facts, as far as it was possi- ble with the prosecution, were kept out of Court. They did not dare to go into the reason why this woman bears the name of Richardson. And I submit, upon the evi- dence before this Court — and we must be governed by the evidence here, and by the evidence alone — that this woman appears as nothing more nor less than THE KISTBESS OF BICHABBSON. Another thing to which I wish in this con- nection to call your attention is this : They do not show that Mrs. McFarland ever earned a single dollar from the time she abandoned her husband down to the time of the death of Richardson. The presumption is, and we have a right to uae it in argument, that from that time she was supported by Richardson, as the wages and price of her submission to his wishes. They say she was writing for some of the papers, but they offer nothing to prove that«he ever received any pecuniary benefit from this source. It appears that filie^ was living at an expense of $15 a week, besides several dollars a week for extras, at a time when no other source of income is proved ezx^ept BIOHABDSOir'S PVB8S; and there is no doubt her expenses came from that source. I come now to tiie occurrence itself the shooting on the 25th of November, 1869. Richardson was armed; he was prepared to kill McFarland if he got a chance ; which proves that he got nothing more than his just deserts when the injured husband's bul- let was the first to get home. He was armed for the purpose of making himself superior to the man he had robbed. Why aid he wrap that pistol in a fiannel cloth and hand it to a friend to be concealed? And why was it carried out of the room and put where it could net be seen after this man was shot, and didn't know how many minutes he had to live? It was because he wanted to have it said, after he was gone, that he had been assassinated. This man, even after he had received his death*wound, when he didn't know but his last moment was at hand, was so wicked that he didn't want it known by persons around that he had cherished mali- cious intentions against the prisoner. The prosecution had tried to hold out the idea that McFarland had been deterred by cowardice ; that he had quailed before the eye of Richardson. What an inhuman charge was this, to say that a husband could quail before the eye of the man who had, like Rich- ardson, robbed him of his wife 1 No, gentle- men, an injured husband will not quail be- fore the destroyer of his wife. " Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just." A pigmy becomes a gfiant, a woman becomes a hero- ine, in the presence of such wrongs. Another point to which I would call your attention, gentlemen, is this: Usually, when a 92 THE EICHARDSON-MoPARLAND TRAGEDY. WIFE SLOPES with her paramour, she leaves the children with the husband ; she leaves him with his paternal rights, and his right to get a divorce, but in this case, every effort had been made to strip this unfortunate prisoner of every right As to Mrs. McFarland's adaptation to the stage, that was all a farce. On the stage she was an abortion. She had no talent as an actress. The whole thing was a part of one of the most WICKED, DIABOLICAL, FIEin>ISH PLOTS the world ever knew. Richardson wanted her as his mistress, and she was put on the stage as the initiative step in the programme. After she got rid of her husband she left the stage. She had not been there since the elopement, or at any rate since a few days after. Why hadn't the prosecution called Mr* Stuart or MB. BOOTH to testify to the wonderAil taleiits of this woman, as described by Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs. Sinclair f The truth was, she was never iSt for an^^ thing but a waiting maid in the tlieatre. She was not likely to rise higher than this. But it was the first ehapter In this plot to get her on the stage; the second was to get Danny off; and tl)is poor , PETTICOAT-BIDDEH man was submissive enough not to resist her, no matter what was required. He would tell you, if he could speak to you, that if he could hope to get back his wife, he was glad to have her back on any terms except those of dishonor. The arrangement was that she was to abscond at the proper time ; Percy, the eldest son, was to be kidnapped and taken to Massachusetts ; and BICHABD80N*S MONET was to fight the whole thing through, and kef'p this father away from his children. Now, what was this husband's position? What was he to do? Compromised tlius, he had to do something. If he sues, he is a craven; if he takes money, he is without spirit ; and if he rises to the dignity of his manhood, and avenges his wrongs, he must go to the GALLOWS. That is the spirit of this prosecution. MONEY was " all she wanted to make her an elegant la ' and after that Richardson and the truant [ wife remain two hours in the second story of THE RICHABDSON-McFARLAND TRAGEDY. 93 THE BINCLAIB HOTJfllE, t Washington Place, where, if they 3n 80 inclined, they could have car- b the disreputable intercourse which sted between them before they came Jraham next took up Mrs. Calhoun's written to induce Mrs. McFarland to the stage, and exhibited the persua- i of those letters sta^ewards, and the poisoning of Mrs. McFarland's mind e RIGHABDSOlf YL&VB vid light. As Mr. Graham left it, as no escaping the belief that Mrs. 1 persuaded Mrs. McFarland to go on re ; and that she and Mrs. Sinclair to- persuaded the misguided woman to her husband and seek the protecting f the panacea for all Mrs. Calhoun's wit: Richardson. The postscript second Washington letter was read day evening. — My darling, we have ceived Mr. R 's letter** — he was tant over his victory that the first e did was to write to those who would [ gratified. n so glad you have left M. [Mr. Mc- I] ; do not, I BESEECH YOU, ' What a shocking prayer to ad- ) a misguided wife 1 " Do not let any 88 of mercy possess you.'* What is it ikes woman angelic 7 Tt is the ten- of her heart; it is the readiness hiich her eye sufiFuses and drops the pity and sympathy at human sufler^ lere Mrs. Calhoun exorcises from hei^ 3om that celestial incident 6f woman's er, and asks this wretched woman expel it from the limits of her own ihe says : not let any weakness of mercy polssess That is, IN'T F0B6IVE YOUE HUSBAND. this, you who are husbands : s happy that the stroke has fallen, no what heartbreak come with it." wretched man (pointing to the pris- its here as the result of that heart- mid be glad that you suffer, if your g would keep you away from him. ling, for whom I would die, do not so your womanhood as to go back. You lOt — shall not. When I come back ill come straight to me and aiay. I ve it so. I will come to-morrow, if sed me. Write me, my darling — all Even if you are distracted, write." mew the woman had not then given love for this man, but she was deter- 3he should if it was in the power of suasion to accomplish that result. I mean to read more of this letter than a portion. It is this : "All my heart B. Let Mr. R." — ^here she TURNS HEB OVER TO BIGHABD80N. — " Let Mr. R. help you. He is good and strong. Stay where you are till I come. Then come to me.** Read these letters for yourselves ; put your own construction on them. One more letter, written in February, 1867 : ' ** Mv Darling : I suppose yon must be snow-bound, as I am, and I send a good morning; Lillie and Junius pronounced your 'Lucy Capulet * better than Madame ot. Juliet There is inceiise for genius. I shall work all day, and be ready to help you to-morrow." Now, tell me the meaning of what T am going to read you. I ask the attention of the Court " Sacrifice yourself by going to Hennessy's, or in any other way I " My fate cries out, and informs me that I wish to know him. Really to get at him. ** I am quite sure there is something be- hind his gray e^^es and mobile face. 1 don't like knowing people indifferently." Does that not mean this : You can make his acquaintance, and then introduce me? If that is a false construction, I de-sire to be corrected. I have always regarded this as a note WHICH SHOULD NEVEH BE PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC EYE. I have only consented that it be presented under a sense of duty that satisfied me, otherwise I would be faithless to ray client. Then she goes on to say — we now come to the disputed passage — ** There are just three persons who are much to me in the flesh ; *' they say that those initial letters are «♦ YOU,»' there may be a doubt upon that point ; but if you read this letter you will see that it is not to a female she is referring, but a man. We believe those initials are tliose of a man, fron]L intimations that we have received, from a source that we have a right to ac- credit ; *• and you can guess the other two." Now, if she referred to three ladies, why did she leave her to *' guess the other two ? " Vou see the impropriety of the expression is so obvious. No lady could speak that way of another. A FREE LOVER ON THE RAMPAGE. At this point a shrill female voice shrieked out, ** We all write so I " This occasioned a great commotion ; but Mr. Graham was too old an advocate to allow anything to loosen his grasp of the jury. He rushed on with more impetuous eloquence than before, while the officers of the Court went for the turbulent female, who was standing with up- raised umbrella, and inflamed countenance, glaring fiercely at Mr. Graham's broad shoulders. Captain McCluskey, the most gentlemanly of attaches, invited the. turbu- lent female to retire. *' I won't go 1 *' she exclaimed. " I "won't THE RICHARDSON-MoFAJtLAND TEAGBDY. fo. Yoa're a parcel of thieves in here, and won't go 1 " Bui the politely inexorable Captai^ waited upon the lady to the hall outHide. and on coming back inforttied the representative oT Thr StTM that she called herself Urs. Yree- Now gentlemen, said Mr. Graham, I hnrry on, and come to the intercepted letter, which B)u have heard read over and over again, y constrnction of that letter ia that it re- fers to a complete system of philosophy that was professed and practiced by tiiis wan Richardson ; and if that was his doctrine, the sooner BICHAROSOIT WENT TO HIS BE&TE the better for society. "Do not be disturbed about your family, little 'eirl; families always respect accom- Slixhed facts. I once outraged mine a great eal worse than yon ever can yours, and time made it all correct." Does he not here concede that In leavinj; her husband she ontroped her husband ? But he tells her that the Iniquity of the ontrape Is relieved by the act, for all the world wants is accomplished facts. Ifthis was the belief of Richardson, and that it was you have his own handwriting, was he a fit man to live in society if there was any Icj^l way to de- prive him of lifet What man could be more dangerous than the man who would say : No matter how t act ; if I fail I may be infa~ inoua, but if I succeed I am all ri^ht. Now let me call your attention for a mo^ ment to the occasions on which Uie evidence shows that Richardflon and this woman were toj^ether, after the wife had absconded. While thi^ broken-hearted man and his son lived in a room at twenly shillinKS a week, going to a restaurant for his meals, this woman is going round enjoying herself with Richartt sou. Dr. Ward sees them at Mr. tjinclair'« in the spring of 1868. M rs. Ammermnn, wha lived opposite the Gilbert family in Newark. said that Mrs. McFarland stopped there three or four months from May, 1B68, and appeared in the company of Richard«en as his wife. meeting him and biFsing him. And Mn. Callahan tees them together at Mrs. Gilbert's, in Jersey City ,in August and September,1668. In rewreuce to the work assigned to the Sage family, it was important in ExoimtAnoii OF ms. oalhotfn to show that Mrs. McFarland went upon the stage with the privity and sanction of her husband. Unless M rs. Calhoun's letters were countervailed they convicted her of having persuaded Mrs. HuFarland to go upon the stage, and Mrs. Sage was selected to kill off those letters or their effect. That was a pretty important duty assigned to old MrE. Sage ; bnt not content with that, they aHaigned to her also the duty of proving thai Mr. McFarland had read to him, and ap- proved of it, the letter of Mrs. Calhoun, of Sept. 27. 18GG. in which she felicitated hei- self OS the result of her exertions toget Mre. McFarland on the stage. In that way, the expect to get rid of the coimection of Mrs Sinclair with the introduction of Mrs. Mc Parland, in violation of her husband's wish* smi desires, upon the stage. But you wil perceive how unreasonable ia Mrs. Sage's eii ilence, when I suggest this. If Mrs. Stp had so good a memory that she conld re member a conversation in >rune, 1862, sdi another in September, 1866, why could sh not remember the three epecimenB of he ilaughter's handwriting that. I placed in lu' hands? Yon remember how positive thi old lady was that she had written to Mr. Mf Farland but one letter, and when I placd mother in her hands and asked, "Did joi write that!" "Yes; that is mine; I m mistaken." You observed the poaitiveneE with which the old lady testified, and he determination to give no evidence whic could benefit the defence. Famihar as fh was with her daughter's handwriting, «h would not presume to recognize these spec men*, which were afterwards proved b another witness to be lu the handwriting o her daughter. Miss Lillie Gilbert was caJled to contradic Mrs. Mason as to what took place at ih hiring of the room at 72 Amity street i March, 1867. You will remember that Hn Mason says that Mrs. McFarland introdsu a lady to her as Miss Lillie Gilbert, Uie BETSDTBXD OF KB. BICHAADBOX, when she wanted to go into his room, "ili a view of removing suspicion from bcnel Miss Lillie Gilbert denies that any tut thing as that took place. You will perceir what a short-sighted denial that is. Mr McFarland wrote about that occurreoee t Mr. Richardson, and in the intercepted lettl he refers to it. I call your attention putii nlarly to this, and I want the district attcme to correct me if I am wrong. " Funny Jm Lillie and the young lady I am etigaged ts, Now I ask this court and jury, did not XIH LILUE GILBSBT swear that when she accompanied Mrt.H< FarUnd to 72 Amity street, on that occMO there was nothing said fibout Mr. RIcbsr mid's intended t Yet so eiull*nt were Iht over what had taken place that Mrs. McFi land wrote it to Mr. Richardson, who writ< back that which I now read to yon : '■Fani about Lillie and the young lady I am engip to. It only confirms my theory that yoDU Mollie are first-class intriguers." You must have been satisfied fiora cert* iuggestions made by the couDsel for the pr«i cution, and questions put by them to tl different witnesses called on the part of ll defence, that some person was promptii thera and communicating to them facts th could only be known by two persons, t prisoner at the bar and his wife. Ifyon* I call to mind some of the questions, you « be satisfied, from the course puraned by t private counsel for the prosecution, that I must have been directly in conference wi THE RICHARDSON-MoFJlELAND TRAGEDY. 9& [cFarland for the purpose of jfettinpr by which he conid examine the wit- introduced on the part of the defence, nore HOBBID THIKG lat, that the wife, in addition to all e has already done, should neverthe- to follow this man furtlier and saddle ira the cruel thin;^ which is meant to g^oal at which this prosecution is to : a glowing tribute of acknowledg- > Mr. Gerry, his associate on this trial, m he said the case was indebted for mgth, Mr. Graham concluded his int in the following language: MB. OBAHAM'S FEBOBATIOK. position which yon occupy, gentlemen iury. is a proud one. Little did you 'hen this event first happened, that uld be called iipon to assume the re- ilities of this occasion. Meet them sbands, fathers, men. The highest s of society are involved in this pro- . Beware how you announce that ^ecration of the marriage relation no other emotion in a manly bosom at of mere passion or revenge. By jonsiderations which hallow it in your ) not thus lightly estimate it. A HOME IK BUINS! atressing the desolation 1 All sublu- ppiness is short-lived at best. That araily circle is not exempt. One by members may be summoned to other . to take part in other cares, to put r relations. DEATH ter its portal, and receive from its ' its victims. In all these there is But grief is endurable in any form t of dishonor. Domus arnica, domua ' "home is home though never so " The best home for us is that •eceives ns with the warmest heart, comes us with the most cordial hand. itemos parietes, within the walls of ily mansion — happy and joyous those At their mention does not memory nvoluntary to the abode of our early 'here, gathered around the family the interchange and correspondence md affection, father, mother, brothers, ers constituted a little community in ves, who, if he could, would not be igain? To you are committed those nte rests. Upon you are riveted the an anxious public. Tou are now to n your action the value you place on vn hearths, and the affection with on regard your own firesides. When urn to them from this place, may it ar the gladdening news that they CANKOT BE DESECBATEB punity by the tread of the tempter, se helpless hmocents who lean upon yon feel that they are still safe, that they still enjoy security. The purity of woman is not to be questioned. Her virtue is a tower of strength. It has ever proved itself able to withstand the «trongest and most persis- tent assaults. Still, are we not taught daily to pray that we may not be led into tempta- tion? In her appropriiite and exclusive department may she ever illustrate her Scripture portraiture. May it be the highest ambition of every wife and mother to have it said of her, that **she perceiveth her mer- chandise is good ; her candle goeth not out by night;" that **she openeth her mouth with wisdom and her tongue with kindness;" that "she looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idle- ness ;" that " her children rise up and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her ;" that *' her husband is known m the gates where he sitteth among the elders of ^e land." Let those who dare DISHONOB the husband and the father, who wickedly presume to sap the foundations of his happi- ness, be admonished in good season of the perilousness of the work in which they are engaged. So far as the result of your delibe- ration is concerned, may they realize and acknowledge the never-failing justice of the DIVINE EDICT that "jealousy is the rage of man;" that he will not, cannot, must not spare in the day of his vengeance. Mr. Graham delivered this peroration with complete excellence of elocution, and its effect was overwhelming. The audience began to cheer at its close, but the demon- stration was sternly repressed by the Court. CASE ENDED. May 10. — The Court convened at eleven o'clock, and the Recorder proceeded to charge the jury. He said : The indictment, stripped of its technical verbiage, charges that McFarland killed Al- bert n. Richardson, intending to kill him. Included in the direct charge was an implied one, that existed in all cases of crime, that the intention was that of a man in a state of sanity. The accused pleaded simply not guilty to the charge. That general denial was really a particular denial, a denial that he killed with an intention to kill, because he was not legally capable of forming an inten- tion to kill. It is the intention that is recog- nized by the law to be criminal, and thereby rendered him accountable to human law. H e then reviewed the case at length and closed as follows : The counsel for the defence has stated in your hearing that several times in kindred cases he has been called upon to vindicate the sanctity of the marriage tie, or of up- holding and defending the marriage relation. I charge you, gentlemen, that no such ideas as those should find entrance into the jury 96 THE RICHARDSON-McPARLAND TRAGEDY. box. You are not to uphold, nor to pros- trate the marriage relation by your verdict. Fourierien free lore or spiitiiuPutaliRni on the one hand, and moral reflect iona upon the conduct of the deceased man or livmg wo- man on the other hand, cannot legitimately affect your rerdict. Some of yon mi^ht ar- rive at conclu8i(mB upon some extraneous matters that have been foisted into this case. That Richardson was a demon, that the counsel for the defence described him to have been, and others of you mi^ht arrive at the conclusion that the fact of Richardson and Mrs. McFarland botli desirin;< ilivorce and raarriat^c was proof that no criminality existed between them «lowii to the homicide, yet either conclusion would be foreijfu to your duty, your sworn and solemn duty to the public, and respect for the due course of law and order, as well as your duty to the ac- cused. The idea of maintaining law strictly, is that jurors shall not speculate on provoca- tion. All wroii)^ may extenuate homicide from tlie dejrree uf murder to one of man- slaughter, when the vmdicator of them is in a state of sanity and under passion whirh does not permit or design to lake life, hut the laws against homicide are enacted and enforced because society is full of wrongs and of temptation thereby to commit rio- lence at the instigation of malice or passion. The law must be left to maintain its own diirnity and to enforce its own decree^ through the constituted tribunals of its own creation, and has not in any just or legal sense commissioned the accused to the dis- charge of the duties of this high office. We must carry into effect the law of the land. We must enforce its solemn mandates and not nullify or relax its positive commands by misplaced clemency. If our duty is clear, we forswear ourselves, if we do not perform it. This duty we must discharge at what- ever hazard, whether painful or disagreea- ble. Neither manhouo or honor, restraint of conscience nor the solenm mandates of the law allow us to decline its performance or to hesitate at its execution. Let us content ourselves with administering the law as we find it. in our own appointed sphere of duty Then wp shall have consciences void of of fence toward all men, and happy consciences that with the s])irit of tmr oaths, and in con formity with the obligations which rest upon us. we huvf as faithful and law-abiding citi- zens executed the laws of the land. The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty after about three hours' deliberation. • I ' THB BICHAKDSON.HoFABLAND TBAOBPTi 97: , I * » MRS. McFARLAND-RICHARDSOFS STATEMENT. KR FULL STORY OF HER MARRIED LIFE-HER RELATIONS TO RICHARDSON FROM RRST TO L-AST-A, D. RICH ARDSON^S SEALED STATEMENT LEFT TO BE OPENED AFTER HIS DEATH-CHAS. RICHARDSON'S STATEMENT CONCERNING THE "MER- CENARY MARR1AGE"-A. D. RICHARDSON'S MEMORANDUM FOR A WILL. SiTSXSVT AlTD AF7IBATIT OF MBS. A B. BICHARD80V. I feel that I cannot break the silence wnich leretofore I have rigidly maintained without ftjring a word as to thfe canse which leadd le to Toake a public statement. I fuHy be- ere that any one of any degr«^e of pride Or 5licacy will bear reproach and contumely id even the vilest slanders in silence rather lan drag out to pnbHc commpnt the most cred details of his inner life, and that only le meanest soul will babble of that which mcerns itself most deeply. But daring the 8t six months, and not a little during the St three years, I have been exposed to such storm of public opinion that all others I rer knew sink into insignificance beside it. .nd now, after I Ikave waited in patience the erdict of newspapers, of the public, and of a Fe^ York Court and Jury, I have decided bat I will speak the first and last word I hall ever speak for myself. Not for any attempt at my own vindication I write this explanation. But for the ii^e of the noble men and women who have '<>od by me through all revilings. often with- wt any explanation from me, and always in le full faith that I was most cruelly wronged ; '** their sakes, and for his who lost his life txiy behalf, I wish to tell the whole story my life. When I was once advised to do » and hesitated, a good woman said to me, •^o not be afraid to tell your story once to the world. Tell it once exactly as ydu 'Uld tell it to your Maker, and then fceejJ tince forever after." And this is what I mean to do; to write exactly as I can the whole and simple ith to the minutest detail, reserving noth- X and extenuating nothing. I do hot hope to tivincye any who are not already convinced at I have hpen most ungenerously traduced, fcce I should have believed of the public ess of America that it would be only cessary for it to Jcnovo the truth to speak especially where a woman was Involved. Dw, bitter experience has taught me that litical prejudice, personal mafice, and ivate vengeance, are motive^ before which ivalry, and pity, and genei>osity, or a sire to be true, go to the wall. So it is to my friends I write this. To bnt f y few of them have I ever told my story. > a very sacred few have mjr lips been isealed. And to the host of generotis taen 7 and women, known and unknown, who have upborne me when the way was very dark and hard for a woman's feet to tread — above all to the w to $30,000. He afeo professed to be a man of temperate habits, of the purest morals, and, previous to my marriage, appeared neither Intemperate, nor brutal, nor profane. Immediately after oar mtrrings we made some Tisits and- then went to Madison, as I supposed, to reside permanently. I re- member we were detained in New York during our very bridal tour while he bor- rowed the money to get back to the West. After we had been in Madison a few weeka, Mir. McFarland • infbrmed me that he was; going to remove to New York, that all hie^ property consisted of Wisconsin State lands. to the amount of a good many thousand acres, on which only a small antount per- acre was paid. He told me that there were- large opporttmitiet for trading these land^ m TfiE'BIOHARBSON-McFABIiANID TRAGEDY. in New York City, and that he was going to reside there while he disposed of them for real estate or personal property. He told me at the same time that he had no money ezcent Jnst sulBment to pay oiir fieu'es to the East, fatid that ht had n1y two or three months before my first /Chtld was bom, and all my senses were mervously acdte, and as I was also, as I be- 'lieve. a woman of refined taate and feeling. ]his breath and whole body steaming with >the vile liquor which he drank during these mights, while I lay awake beside him, made liim very odious to me, so^ that before I had '^een married to him a year my affection. for ihim was very much chilled, I might say -nearly destroyed. In November my sister came to visit me, And then I sent awiiy my servant, and we •did the housework. During her visit Hr. *M<;Farland took her to a matinee at the 'theatf'r: left her and returned at the elose 'Of the matin6e grossly intoxicated; made 'love io her in his drunken foolishness, and 'friglitened her exceedingly. Wliien I re- -proached him witli this cowliict i&e swore he would never drink again, and dre' written pledge to that effect, which h apparently several months. At Chr time my baby was born, my mother c on to nnrae me^ and early in the. s|[ ^enli hpttrt agaj^.^ My^ bfcby died At ther's, and was buried in our family place, my father bearing the funeral ses. In July of '59 I returned again McFarland. I remained with him thi about three months. My heart wa» bruised by the death qf my baby, and less able to bear up under the bnitali violence of Mr. McFarland's temper, not enter into the details of his trei of me during these three months; was^o bad that I went back to my fi ii) October, 1859, and remained ah year; till August, 1860. At this ti October, 1859, when I returned hon had had courage to have told my i I and father of my troubled life, I shou bably never have returned to this mai 1 could not speak. It was go hard « to tell.. My ideas of a wife's duty most conservative. I believed she t suffer almost unto death rather than the laws of marriage. I had a cons sensitive to any appeals against itself, tried hard to love my husband and co myself I was in the wrong. Besides, expecting, in a few month^, the birth other child. No one shall say I mea narrative as an appeal to sympath; those who believe in my truth roust s case was hard, and realize somewlu suffering I endured. Two of my children were bom at and the expenses came principally o father, although at the birth of my yoi child, I paid my physician's bill.mysell the results of a public reading which 1 for that purpose. We went back to Madison where w lived previously, took a small house inc to housekeeping. We lived here a yei two months, and this was the happies of my life with him, although I did m housework most of the time and took c liuy baby. But I was so thoroughly we the terrible vagabondish life 1 had i Uved with this man, that, und>er.alraoi condition, a home I could call %u7i€ s delightful to me. Mr. McFarland uev any work while in Madison, or earne money, I lived with extreme economy : had $800 or $900 left when he reached son, which, with the addition of $. $hOO more, which he received from tl of a tract of land wiiich he owned where, bought the furniture for oiu house and supported us for the fo months we lived there. At the expira this time Mr. McFarland began to groi and more morose and ill-tempered, an me finally he was getting out of m(m< had no way of getting any. He ende to get a public office of some kind iu sqn but was not supported even by th THE BI0HARI)I^ON-McFABLAND TBA.GEDY. 99 vhom he counted as his friends. I had at- krmcted some attention in private circles by my reading, and had ^ven a public reading Ibr the benefit of a soldier*s hospital. On this Mr. McParland proposed to me that he vhoald take me to New York and have me Utted for the stage in the profession of an •etress. He also announced that he should himself adopt the profession •of an actor- in cise my success became assured. He had been at some time a teaclier of elocution in a military school in Maryland, and he began training me in the k^ading of stage parts. In Jnue, 1861, he sold all our little furni- ture in Madison and brought me East, first wing to ray father's, in New Hampshire, to leave ray little Percy, so that I could devote dl my tfme to the stage. He made no secret of this to my parents, who did not approve of this step on his part, but did not interpose, the conservative Puritan ground that even le parents liave no right to interfere in the fairs of husband and wife. We went to lew York, boarding first on Beach st., and afterward with Mrs. Oliver; at 58 Varick st, in the same vicinity. As soon as we were Kttied ill the first of the places, Mr. McFar- k&d began drilling me for the stage, which, I may say here, was the first and only iii- itmction of any kind whatsoever he ever gave ae ; and he also sent me to take lessons of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Vandenhoff*, to be fitted lur the stage. I also began to give readings this Fall, and paid our board daring the Fall •nd Winter with my own earnings. At Chrigtmas of 1862, I was so anxious to have Percy with me, and I felt so hopeful of doing veil during the Winter with the dramatic leadings which I had begun, that I sent Mr. HcFarland on to New Hampshire to get Percy, who had been all this time at ray Other's. On this occasion Mr. McFarland took with him all the little stock of jewels I ]K)8Res8ed— my rings, brooches, watch and chain (which had by this time been so fre- 4)QeDtly pawned and repawned that I did not care for them), and sold them all in Boston. ThesB were the last jewels I ever possessed, tttcept a plain gold ring, which is the wedding Ting placed on my hand by my dead husband. Mr. McFarland was unspeakably cruel to toe this Fall and Winter of 1862 and 1863, *liile we boarded at No. .58 Varick street ^e occupied the only sleeping apartment on • tlie parlor floor, and he could give full scope to his furies without fear of being overheard. I was all the time working hard to study for the profession for which he had designed 'toe, and to make a success in dramatic read- iogfi, by which I was supporting both him •nd myself. I was still very young, and very proud and reticent. I had a most unusual cheerfulness and elasticity of temper, or I ftever should have lived through so heavy hals. He would lock.hiraseIf into the room ^ith me, and give way to such terrible furies ihat only the extremest pride and self-con- rol prevented me from making my misery tiowa. He brought home what he pro- fessed was prussio acid, and threatened to take it, and to force me to take it. He would snatch hiy scissors from my work-basket, and. tearing open his breast, he would bran- dish them about, swearing he would ** let out his heart's .blood" before me. He told me (then a shrinking girl) that he kept loaded pistols, with which he would at any moment shoot me. One morning, during this winter which I am ndw describing, after Mr. McFarland had been ont nearly all night in a drunken orgie, and had risen from bed in one of his worst tempers, I approached htm as he stood by the mirror finishing his toilet, and began to say something soothing to prevent the out^ burst of ill-temper which I feared was soon coming. He turned around and struck me a blow across my face which ,iiiade me reel backward. Although he hao»flf}ften pinched and bit me in some of his fits of drunken- ness, he had never before struck^ me so cruel and cold-blooded a blow. I fj^lt as I shall never forget. I think an Atff^rican woman does not easily -forgive a blovir,ilike that. At all events, 1 remember I 8aid«i?o him, without raising my voice, '' I shall never be able to forgive you such an outrage,** and 1 think I never could forgive it. From that time I took an entirely different cottrse with him when in one of these furies. ^I had shed a great many tears under his cruelty, had tried to reason with him, had tried entreaties and persuasions. After this, whenever he was in one of his paroxysms — as he himself called them — 1 never moved or spoke, but, keeping perfectly self-controlled as far as I could, I sat quiet, always keeping my eye on him, be- cause I always fancied as long as I looked steadily at him he would not do me any mortal violence. And 1 believe now, as I believed then, that my life has been saved by this silence and self-control. He has sometimes approached me with his hands extended, the fingers bent like claws, as if he were about to clutch iny throat, and cried, " How I should like — hke to strangle" you." Or, •* your life is bound some time to end in tragedy." Or, " your blood will be on your own head,** and has, as I think, been restrained because I simply looked at hi] without saying a word. In these furies he would often seize and break anything which was at hand — lamps, glasses, mirrors, and sometimes the heavier furniture of the room. Often he would rise from bed in these uncontrollable attacks of passion, tearing away all the bed-clothing, tearing in shreds his own night-clothing, throwing anything he could find which was breakable crashing about the unlighted room, till it has seemed to me as if there could be no Pandemonium worse than that in which I Uved. And all this he would do without explanation, or even a pretext for complaint against me, and when I knew no more what excited his frenzy than a babe unborn. I never told him after this Winter that I 100 TBB mOHABDSON-ijcFARX/Altp TRAQFDY could forgive or conld love him, althongh he soraetimes implored is& to do bo, because 1 could not Bay -80 with truth. Generally I told him I pitied him, which vnis true. Soraetimes he said, ** Your d— d silence irri- tates me more than if you talked;'' but I was sure my course was the best. At the time he struck me this severe blow in 1862, 1 told Mrs. John F. Cleveland (a sis- ter of Mr. Greeley, who^had been very kind to me in my drtfUaatic readin^rs) about the blow and sometliingof Mr. McFarlar^d's co]>- duct to me. I did not tell her all, nor the worst, but I told her how he had at ruck ipe. principally because I was engaged to read at tlie house of •same friends of hers an evening ^ or tvTO after, and I feared she would notice the mark on my face., Sh^ wa8 the only per- son to whota#X,.ever spoke of Mr. McFarland (otherwise tly^m a manner becoming for a wife to speak of a husband), till the -Winter of 1867. ,And I devoted all my woman's skill and taoj^ in hiding his conduct from casual obsemm' at our boarding-houses or elscwhei^ k * During the tj^nter of 1862 ana 1863 I had met Mrs. Sinclair oft^n |it her cousin's, Mrs. Cleveland's, and she had shown me many and great kindnesses. She had given me her parlors f^one of my readings and .bad sold the tickets among my friends. At the time Mr. McFarland received his appoint- ment in the Prpvost-Marshars office she used her influence and her husband's influ- ence to get him appointed. No person living has a stronger claim on the gratitude of this unhappy man than the noble woman whose charity he has so abused. In tins Winter of 1863 and 1864. while we lived, in Lamartine Plac^, we were Mr. Sinclair's • neighbors. One night while there Mr. Mc; Farland came home so bruised and bleeding from some street broil— ra not uncommon oc- currence on his part — that I was obliged to call on Mr. Sinclair for aid in getting him in bed. It was only .three or four weeks before the birth of my youngest child, orl should not have done so. Then I Jcept M r^ McFar- land in his room for more than a week^ carrying his meals to him myself, that his disgrace might not be seen and commented on by the household where we boarded. ' From the time he got his place in the En- rolment Office, in '63, until the Fall of '64, Mr. McFarland sent me home three times, And moved lue to eight different l>oarding- houses. If, for one moment, I was peaceful in the possession of a shelter, his habits or his dissatisfied temper drove him to change. At last, in the Fall of 1864, Mr. Sinclair of- fered us, rent free* his unoccupied farm-house on the Hudson Biver, and we moved there for the Winter of '64. During this year my youngest boy, Danny, had been born on one of my visits to my fatlier's house. I stayed at (Jroton, in Mr. Sinclair's bouse, all Winter, and, during the Summer in a small tenement, which we rented there, and which I furnished Tery cheapiy with :(200, borrowetd by Mr. McFarland from my father. Here Mr. Me- Farlaud's conduct was more endurable, for he was away nearly all day, and the ouiet mf pleasantness o(:the country when lie eaai^ there, I fancied had a good effect on hiot In tlie Summer of '65,/hpwever, he lost luij place under Government, and seemed to' make no further attempt to do • any thioip. He inform^ me one day that he was outo( a placfi and had no money. Then I told liio) 1 supposed I should have to give poblie readings again. As usual, when I niade such suggestions, he sw.^re at me in his teiv rible way. but made no other answer. I went on and made my arrangements to giTe dramatic readings ; gave several before leav- ing (Jroton, and then, with some of tht money I had raised, I went to my father's^ who had now moved to Massachusetts, tad from his house went away, to give severil other readingjs in New England, leaving the children with mother. At this time f paid the bill to the physician who attended ineat Danny's birth, now 18 months old, wbidi had been all this time unpaid. This Winter I made a desperate struggle for life. I had my two babies— the younger just weaned; I had this man half of the time coming home intoxicated, and I had nothing bot mj woman's heart and hands to look to for rap port. I gave all the readings I could. I did all my own housework when at home. I took faithful care of my children, bnt I oflea sank into such utter despondency ofheartMf ^ only God knows and can pity, when he seel tite poor human soul sinking n.nder it. On one of these days Mrs. SincfatTcaffit in. I had never said a word to her about luy troubles, and she had been too delicali to broach the subject to me. When shi went away she put a littlepaper in myhani and after she had gone I found it was a (Si bank note. Next morning came a lettef from her inclosing another $50 note, wbicb she said wus a present from some other friends of mine. I confess, I could not eD* dure such a wound to my pride. 1 had beei I reared in. coujfort and plenty, and in 9J J veins ran some of the proudest blood i| Massachusetts. I knew not oneof myla& had ever taken alms. I had to use som9 ^ the money sent me, for we were absolutely pinched with want at that moment, but the next week 1 sold all our furniture, vhii^ was bought with money borrowed of my father, and parted with many arlicles of coifr fort which had been sent to me from mf home, >rming me that he should probably not be ^k very much of the time during this i^inter. Then I was so worn out by the anxieties id the terrible weeks I had spent at New- 'k that I broke down and was ill at this range boarding-hottse, alone with my two ibies. While here, Mrs. Galhouh called id found me in this condition, and, going home, she wrote a note in which she told me, in the most delicate manner, that when- ever I wanted money her purse was at my service. Ilie same day Mrs. Sinclair called, and, shocked at the wretched and desolate condition in which she saw me, took me and both my children to her house. As soon as I was there and had begun to recover, Mr. McParland came back and made his prepa- rations to come there also. As gently as I could I told him Mr. Sinclair's house was over-fiill, and if he were coming back to town I must get a place somewhere for all of us. 'It was then about two weeks before my engagement began at Winter Garden. Mr. McFarland instructed me that I might get board for myself and the children but only occasional board for himself, as he should be absent about tlie gas business most of the time. I then engaged board in Macdongal street, in a very respectable house, where I had a small attic-room for all my family. As soon as I got here my health again gave way, and I was ill in bed nearly two weeks. It was only by sheer force of will that I got up from bed and dragged' myself to the theater to begin my engagement. During these two weeks' illness, Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs. Calhoun visited and ministered to me. Both of them sent me nourishing food from their own table, by their own servants. They sent me money, and gave me the lov- ingest .sympathy that woman ever gave to woman. I had tfl ready got an engagement to write for The Riverside Magazine, and one day during this illness, when Mrs. Cal- houn found me sitting up in bed, weak and exhausted, finishing a child's story, with my two noisy little children playing at my bedk side, she took it away, and interested the managing editor of The Independent in my work, so that he sent me word he would take some of my stories for his paper. As soon as 1 went on the stage (this was the 28 th of November, 1866,) I -told, the woman in whose house I had been boarding about three weeks, of my new profession; She immediately told me that she «DuId not possibly have an actress in her house, and I must get a new place aft soon as convenient; As quickly as 1 could I found a new place at N board bill, and I fear will spend a good deal* of the moiiey, which we need so much in; liquor. " Don't come to me after reading this ; I! fear I shall repent writing it. Yonrs always. . "Abby." ** P. S. — I jost went down to breakfast and left him in bed. When I came up he was gone! I shall be so anxious till! nighU". The evening after I thus wrote her, Mr^ McFarland not coming home, I went to- Mrs. Sinclair's, before going to the theater, . and told her what great distress I was in. She then told me she had been herself to* Mr. McElrath, who was a friend of Mr. Sin-- clair's, and had asked him for a place for Mr. McFarland, in the Custom House, and he had promised to give him one. **But,"' she added. '* if he gets drunk habitually, I. can't ask Mr. Sinclai^ to recommend him,* because Mr. McElrath will not give a man: of such habits a pltice." I then implored) her to say nothing about it, because be must get the place, else I should not kno in the matter before she went away ; but I felt as if I could not con- Bent to this, and teld her so. Mr. Oliver Johnson told me afterward that she did ispeak to himself and his wife of her great anxiety for me, and her fear th.at Mr. McFar- land would murder me in some of his parox- ysms. After Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs. Sinclair w«re gone, I devoted myself more closely than ever to my work. Mr. Richardson was there in the same house. He had been there a few days, perhaps a week, when they went away. On the evening of the 19th of Feb- .rtiary, Mr. McFaHand came in from the Custom House, where he had been employed since the 1st of February. 1 was standing at Mr. Richardson's doof in the front hall, and he was just handing ihe some manu- scripts which he had ofiered to leiid tne to make use of if I could, in some literary work. Mr. Richardson's room was' used as his ' working-room ; -and at this time, as at all parts of the day, he had with him a stenographer, a messenger^boy, 'and an artist, who were engaged in his literary works. When Mr. McFarland came in he objected to my going to Mr. Richardson^s room, to which 1 replied, that ** 1 had not been in, was not in the liabit of going there, and even if I had been in there, it wfts not a private room, but an office, in the day-time." With this the matter dropped, and I supposed 'this was all of it ; but in a few moments Mr. McFar- land commenced to say something again on the same subject. I saw he was in ill humor, and I supposed he wished to- make anything the pretext, for one of his passions, and 1 sadd little or nothing. From tliis he worked ' himself up into a great fury, in which I left him to go to my' necessary work at the . theatdr. He ^continwed in this rage through the nighty and I spent a terrible night wldi him. All through the ne^t day (the 2Q\h] he remained at home abusing and tormenti ing me. He osed Db me expresuons which I never, could forgive or endure; and, itill harping on the fact of my being at Mr. Richardson's room, asked me before FereVf who Was all the time present : ** Did Kt* Richardson ever kiss you?" **Have yo« ever been in his room alone with bimt" and others which I considered insulting sod unpardonable. At last he declared he was willing to be separated from me, and that I. might ge home to* my father's dnd leave him. When I assented to this, he wanted to bring in some of my friends to talk the matter over before them, but I refused to take counsel from any one till my father could be sent for. On the evening of the 20th, before gohig to' the theater, I secreted his rasors, hH pocket-knife, my scissors, and all articles I considered dangerous — as I frequently did on such occasions — and left him. When I came home he was still raging. He fre- quently had made threats of committiiig suicide, often goin^ (mi of doors with that avowed purpose. On this occasion, abovt midnight he bade me an niiusually solena '*eteE£ial farewell," and told me that thii time ive was certainly going out to destroy himself. He had done this so many thaei that I said nothing, and made no effort ts detain him. At the door he hesitated, sod asked if I had nothing to say *' in this Isit parting." Isaid^ ''1 can only say that Isa hopelessly sorry for you." ' He went osti and in a few minutes returned, as I knewhs would, cooled and sobered by the cold siflkt air, and then, it being nearly momingf, ss mildly and firmly as I possibly could, I bei^sA to talk with him. I told him decidedly thii I should leave him forever. He wept «»i sobbed, and begged me to foririve him. 0* confessed that he had wronged me, thst 9» woman would have borne with him as I hid done, and about daylight went to sleep tf' hausted. The next morning I went to Mr. SinclsirB and placed myself under the protection •• his roof, and never afterward saw Mr. Ms* Farland except once or twice in the presen* of others. MB. BKIHARDSCnrS ACaXFAIHTAKCE W^ ME ANB HIS COKNEOTIOK WITH MT CA8B. Up to the time of his coming to room •* the same house in Amity street, my s^ quaintance with Mr. Richardson had been very slight and formal. He was a freqaen} visitor at the house of two of my most inti- mate friends — Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs. CalhoW — in whose mother's family he had been u inmate after his return from prison, tfj where he was like a son and a brother, met him there quite often, but on very foi mal terms. At the time, on the 1st of Di cember, wh%n I was obliged to leave tli place in M'acdougal street, because the boar THB BICHABDSOM-MoFlItLAND TBAGEDT. m ise keeper refnsed to keep any one of )fe8sion of an actress in ner house, I Df this circurastanoe to the family at alhoiin's when we were all at the Innch .nd Mr. Richardson was present. They 11 indignant, and Mr. Richardson, with endliness and 'sympathy which were ef characteristics, proposed that I ad- for a boarding-place. He also said ; the honse where he lodged were some rooms, and that if L were* to look at ind liked them he would himself speak landlady of my profession,- and he it slie would not object to it. On this d next day at the house where Mr. dson lodged, looked at the vacant and saw him at the time for a rao^ n the front hall. The rooms were too live for me, and I took lodgings at ihe at No. 86 Amity street. ir I removed to No. 72 Amity street, chardson being obliged suddenly to ) his lodgings, and knowing I was nearly opposite in the same street with f, came to see if he could get rooms I introduced him to Mrs. Mason, the ; house woman, but beyond that had erest or influence in getting him in- there. Mrs. Mason, who is an Irish I, and in full sympathy with Mr. land, has in this case meide . many 0U8 statements. If I had any feeling Mr. Richardson's coming to take a 10 near Mr. McFarland and myself, it le of aversion, from the fact that he not brf there without knowing some- 3f my unhappy life, and I felt keenly ach a knowledge would pain and hu- 5 me. But 1 could not' control the and about a month before I finally r. McFarland, Mr. Richardson had there to lodge. I saw him often, and me many kindnesses. I knew very ! pitied me, because he thought I was orked, and not very happy. His treat- )f me was always most respectful and ;d. There was never, prior to my If Mr. McFarland, a word or even a Hssed between us which I should not d now if all the world had seen and My boy, who was then seven years 16 always with me, and Mr. Richard- alls were made usually in the afternoon the time he got through work, and r after Mr. McFarland had got home iown town. This is the exact and . statement of my acquaintance With chardson up to the time of my separa- om Mr. McFarland. afternoon, or night of the» 20th of iry, while Mr. McFarland was in his rage, I wrote in my dressing-room at 3ater a letter to Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs. m, then in Washington, telling them was suffering, and my fears for my I felt that' if Mr; McFarland should r me in some of his. outbursts, it was hat they should know th^ very worst, was frank to the tttmoi^. Th«y an- swered that letter on the instant, with the two noble and womanly letters which havjB already been produced in print as evidence of ** their conspiracy to take a devoted wife from a loving and chivalrous husband." On the last night of my life* with Mr. Mc- Farland, the night of the 20th of FebmaTV, it happened, as was not usual, that Mr. Rich- ardson was in his room the whole evening* He almost always spent his evenings at Mrsi Gilbert's, which was his home in New York, iMid where he was loved like a son. He has since told me that he heard the greater part of what had passed that night, as was un- avoidable from the position of his room, and that he feared he might be obliged to call help, or himself interfere in my behalf against Mr. McFarland 's violence. The next day, when I left my rooms to go to M r. Sinclair's, I found Mr. Richardson there when I ei»- 'tered. No one else was present but Miss Perry, • Mrs. Sinolair's older sister. Under ordinary eircumstances I should have eonr trolled myself until I could see Miss Ferry alone ; but worn out as I was by the misery and excitements of the last two days,. and the fact that I had still been obliged to keep at work at home and at the theater, I brott down, and burst into tears as soon as I eit- tered the room. As soon as I could speak I began to talk to them both. Mr. Richard- son said very little. I remember he said, " This is a matter in wlhoh I cannot advise you, but whatever you make up your mind to do, I shall be glad to help you in." He did help me in ten thousand ways in which I never should have permitted him to take part if I had had the slightest knowl- edge of the feeling which was to grow up between ns. He helped me make arrange- ments to send Peroy home, which was the first thing I was anxious to do. fie tele- graphed for me to "one or two friende, .and wrote to Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs. Sinclair 4>f the step I had taken, which I asked him to do at once. All these things which common prudence would have prevented him frota doing if there had been any guilty secret b^^- tween us or any relation except the simple one on his part of sympathy toward a very wretched woman, he did openly and unre 'servedly. -He saw Mr. McFarland and told him he was my friend in this, and that, lie had telegraphed to my father to come on. . ^ On the 23d my father came, and on tlie 24th, in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Johnson, Mr. Sinclair, and my fathef and Mr. McFarland, I announced to him my ab- solute determination to leave him.. I told him he knew he liad lost my affections year^ before, and that what I now did wduld be final. I said very little except this, for any allusion to his conduct Mr. McFarland . in- terrupted immediately. But:he.was nnuBu- ally calm for him, and said several times he accepted ray decision as final, and ;adde<}« '*I bow to it and submit to it." I troaAed him with a great deal of pity, m. I alwi^y^ hady «nd xtr^td my fiftther to gO home u^d IM THB BIOHABDSON-MoFARLAND TRAGIWY. remain all night with him to see that he did nothing desperate. Of course, his constant threat that he would commit suicide, and that, in such a case, ** his blood would be on my head." had always caused me some anx* iety, which I am now convinced I might have spared myself. The evening after this separation took place, Mr. Richardson called at Mr. Sinclair's and stayed an hour or two with the family. He told us ail that in a few days he was going to Hartford to finish his book. I was going to Massachusetts the 7tli of April, when my engagement expired at the theater, and I thought if he went away in a day or two I mi^ht not see him again, so when he arose to leave that evening, I went to the door, to say — what I could not say before the others — that he had been very, vrrt good to me, that I never could repay him, but that God would surely bless him for it. I could not say this without strong emotion, and while I spoke, he said : "How do you feel about facing the world with two babies 7" I answered : *' It looks hard for a woman, but, then, I am sure I can get on better with- out that man, than with him." At this, Mr. Richardson, still holding my hand, which I had given him to say *' good4}ye," stooped down, and, speaking in a lower tone so that he could not be heard through the door opened in the parlor where the others wefe sitting, said these words : *' I wish you to remember, my child, that any responsibility you choose to give me in any possible fu- ture, I shall be very glad to take." I think those were his exact words. And with this, he went away without a single word more being spoken by either of us. I turned and went np-stairs, and said nothing to any one that night. It may have been two days later Mr. Richardson called again. It hap- pened I was in the parlor alone when he * came in. In the talk which took place then, he told me that during the storms of the last few >days of my life he had become interested in me and very fond of me, that I was the -woman of all the world whom he had seen to whom he would gladly intrust the care of his mother- ess children ; that my prudence and reserve daring all our acquaintance when he knew I was unhappy, had won on him greatly ; that he lavtd me, and that if in any future, how- ever far off, I could be free to marrr, he wanted me to know fully this feeling. What could I say? Mr. Richardson had all my respect for his chivalry and generosity to me before he had spoken thus. When he spoke, all my heart went out to him as freely as the river flows toward the sea. The formal sepa- ration from Mr. McFarland in which he •eemed to release me from the bondage in which he held me, had had to me the moral effect of a divorce. I had a feeling which perhaps no one can understand. It was as if o millstone had been cut off from my neck, imd'leftme as frpe and unbound as I ever felt in ^girlhood. Mr. Richardson seemed tome in every respect the opposite of the miserable man who had so long tormented me. His good- ness to me, his unusual strength of character, united with his tenderness and sympathy, made it absolutely impossible not to lovo him. While he waited for me to say some^ thing to answer what he said, I did not think of the imprudence of it at all. I only asked him earnestly if his chivalry and a generooi impulse to assist a woman in trouble had not led him to mistake this for a warmer feeling. He laughed at this, and then I began to think of my family and Mr. Richardson, and of my whole unhappy position. Mr. Richardson blamed himaelf afterward, and our friends all blamed us for this declaration on his part and my acceptance of it, as an act most rash and imprudent, but I know we neither of us meant to do anything either immoral or even improper. He couiiselled me to tell my friends all he said and take their counsel. Our talk at most was not a very long one, and within a few days he went to Hartford, and I did not expect to see him again for an indefinite time. After his departure I went back to my old room in Amity st., where my trunks and wardrobe still remained. It was convenient to do this, and some one of my lady friends went to spend the nights with me. Two nights after I went there, Mr. Richardson unexpectedly came from Hartford, intending to go to Washington for a day or two. He had written me several* letters during hi« stay at Hartford, which I had received and answered. He arrived in New York on the 12th of March, and on the evening of the I3th, when I went out of the tlieater, I found him there wjiiting for me. He was asked tp call for me by the friends who usually took me home, and who, on that night, were. gone to the opera. After walking a few yards from the' theater, Mr. McFarland came up behind us and shot Mr. Richardson, inflicting a severe but not dangerous wound in the thigh. As soon as he had done this, he fired two shots in quick succession at me, but without wounding me, as Mr. Richardson had told me to run as soon as he felt himself hurt. On this evening, after he had been at the Sta- tion House mth the policeman who arrested Mr. McFarland, Mr. Richardson went with me to the house of our friends, Qnd remained in New York till he was out of danger, and then returned to my father's in Massachu- setts. At this time I heard first of the intercepted- letter from Mr. Richardson to me, which he hadi written from Hartford after the oomiersation which had taken place between us«. I never saw the letter or knew its contents- till it ap* p^ared in print TJie letter was a mixture of lest and of sentiment, which any. one who* knew Mr. Richardson would readily under- stand. I shall not go ou tonexplain -i poi^t by point, but the aUnsion to his lo^e for m,e being the " growth of years " was^ simply a sentimental expression^ as in poiub of met I had known him only a few months,, and had JHE RiaHABDSON-McPAELAyD TRAGEDY. lOT^ leen, acquainted with him not more than four Bonths. Juitt after the shooting, while I was in the Ifreat distress of mind folio wiugr saoh a hor- rible occurrence, Mr. McFarland went to my rooms in Amity street, and, gaining access to my rooms oy such representations as (ioisoued the minds of the landlady aad the lenrants against me (to whom, of coarse, I lid said nothing about my affiiirs], he broke ipen my trunks, took out all the private Drrespondence I had preseryed daring my rhok) life, rifled my writing-desk and port- bKo, and eve*h searched the pockets oi my Iresses. He also succeeded in intercept* ngtwo or three more letters from friends mt of town. This is the history of the BfiTate letters he has been able to intro- iQce into the case ; and I feel compelled to M, as was proved in a measure at the trial, tint all these letters, except those two inter- cepted from Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs. Calhoun, he had previously read ; that the letters from Mrs. Oalhoan to me about the fltage had been read by him months before I left bim, and that all her efforts to get me an fBgagement were as well known to him as to me. While I lited with Mr. McFarland I never had a letter which in any sense eotild«be called private. He never, that I lomember, brought me a letter of which he Hid not first broken the seal and gone over tiie contents. And I am glad to feel that few people's private letters (things so sus- ceptible of being misunderstood or put under wse construction) could have borne so well ttie test of publicity, and the most malicious tttempt at misrepresentation as the letters •f which I was robbed in the manner I have dwcribed. ^ After I went back to Massachusetts, ter- ribly hart by scandal which had been caused by the shooting of Mr. Richardson in the ^pen street, I wrote to Mr. Richardson telling bim that I feared — and that the thought ^eved me inexpressibly— that in a moment of romantic generosity he had offered me his H>ve. To this letter of mine, Mr. Richardson Wrote me in answer the following letter, ^bich shows so well the chivalrous nature ^ the man, and the rare traits which won n^etolove him so deeply as I do, that I print 1^ without reserve because I believe it will b^r to a candid mind his vindication, as well *8 corroborate my story : "March 31, 1867. ^ " My Ix>ve : If Heaven shall ever grant me ^be last blessing of calling you mine, by the i&ost sacred name of wife, it will compensate ^^ for all waiting and sorrow. And, precious, should one of us go hence by unal- ^rable destiny 'before that blessed hour ^ome^ it would stili be blessed and full com- ;>ensal;on to know that you had loved me ; bat you had found in my poor natuire omewhere hidden any worth that deserved iat '* And, procions, about our immediate situ- tion. There isn't ai bit of aiiy sacrifice or generosity about it on my part. Once for aU^ remember that. Partly from my own rash- ness, partly from things neither of us could control, yon and I are in a little boat on a high and somewhat perilous sea. If I had had any sense yon wonld not have been there. But 1 believe devoutly.in the proverb that a man who isn't a fool part of the tima is one all the time. It was foolish, imprn- dent, cruel in me to let you be on such a craft with me, when patience could have avoided it. But I loved you and took no^ counsel of reason. " Well, darling, here we are in the littl< boat, waves high, some sharks, some pirateaJ For me, it is nothing. I have faced all perils in life and death before, and their familiar faces don't disturb me. And I am not a bit afraid to die ; so I am not afraid of iEtnything in life. But, precious, for you my heart re«, i)roaches me. I am so sorry, when I shoaldj lave been your helper and comforter, anc shield, to have brought you into such a storm But, darling, if I live^ I am going to see yoi safely out of it. If I should not live to gq into harbor with you, the Father will taWs care of your sunny head. **But, precious, let us take our chances, I have been in rougher waves before, and ridden them safely. Let us exercise the best seamanship we can, provide for all contin- gencies as far as possible, and then keep the serene mind which defies fate and fears noth- ing but guilt, and knows how infinitesimal all these petty things of life are, and feels sure that infinite love and absolute justice rule the world. '* My darling, in all that I am or do, or have or hope for, in life or death, you arw irrevocably interwoven. I regret notliing that I have done, save just to the extent thi^ it has affected or marred your happiness. My whole heart, my whole life, go out to you. I think I see a happy future, sunny days, loves of children, loves of home, good to others. I know I see a loyalty nothing can shake, a trust that is absolute, a love that is utter and vital." After my return to Massachusetts, in March, 1867, Mr. McFarland commenced proceedings to get possession of my children in a suit of habeas corpus. Not satisfied with these proceedings, he assailed me ii^ every way possible to harass a woman. I hardly have one friend in New York or New England into whose house he did not enter to force them to liaten to his story. He as- sailed my character with vile epithets, which I should blush to repeat, and which he knew, in his own consciousness, I would die ten thousand deaths rather than deserve. I am glad and proud to say that none of my friends fell off fVom me, and that among all my friends and acquaintances, only one door has been shut against me, in spite of all the heavy slanders, which I have had to bear. At last,, weary and worn oi\t with more con- tests than I can describe here, pursued by his revenge, in the fofm of aaonymous bet- 108 THE RICHABDSON-MoFABLAND TBAGBDT. ters, by spies set to watch my footsteps, by aH that can wear ont a woman's courage and heart, I made a compromise with Mr. Mc- Farland. It was a^eed that all proceedings should be stopped by. a division of the chil* dren, and that he should take Percy and I flhoald keep Danny in my charge. My re* morse for letting the child go witliont letting the legal proceedings take their course has been terrible. But I was very weak. I was in Boston, where I had no friends except my own family. In the midst of nil these pro- ceedmgs, Gov. John A. Andrew, who was my lawyer, died suddenly. I was instructed that, by the common law, the children be^ long to the father, and that it is in the dis- cretion of the court whether the mother shall have her children or no. Last of all, Mr. McFarland came to my mother and prom- ised, with a solemnity which seemed like * truth, that he would put my child in school ; that he would only consult my wishes in choosing place for him, and that there should . be no bar between me and the little boy. So I let him go in November, 1867. It was only a little while before I heard the child was not in school, was not going to be there, that he was dragged from one lodging-house to another, till I became so anxious I came to New York to see him. When, accom- panied by my lawyer in New York city, Mr. Kunkle, I went to the lodgings where Percy lived, I was met by'Mr. McFarland with such a storm of outrage and abuse as I will not try to describe. It was in the Spring of 1868 that I at- tempted to see Percy. After the outrageous scene, which nearly broke my heart, my friendo all said one thingf — that I must at once take legal steps to get free from Mr. McFarland. I decided very soon to go to Indiana. The laws there, as I found on consultation, permit a divorce for drunken- ness, extreme cruelty, and failure to sup- £ort a wife. I knew, beyond a doubt, that Ir. McFarland had committed adultery while I lived with him as his wife. I had be^ offered proof tiiat he had committed that crime against marriage since I had ceased to live with him. I was told that adultery was the only ground on which a di- vorce in New York was obtainable. But I repeat now what I said then, with all my fioul upon my lips, that I considered his treatment of me, his personal abuses, his terrible profanity, his outrages of all kinds, an infinitely greater sin against roe and my womanhood than if he had committed again and again, unknown to me, the crime against the marriage relation which is the only cause ihe New York courts hold just grounds for divorce. 'My opinion in this ■ remains un- changed even while I write. So I went to Indiana, and remained there sixteen months, only once coming home for a little visit in Massachusetts, at Christmas. Oa the dlst * -of. October; 1669, 1 returned to my mother's hodse legfaJlyBOt firoe from my first marriage b^nd by tho-deoisloft'of one of the States under the Constitution, which affirm^ that full faith and credit shall be given in emch State to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other State. During all my stay in Indiana, and in ail his frequent joumeyings west, I ueves saw Mr. Kichardson once, and he curor fully avoided passing through the city where I. stopped to give no shadow of a cause for scandal. But on the 31st of Oc- tober, 3869, I came home /retf. On Novem-; ber 17, 1869, Mr. Bichardson came on ta his mother*8 house in Med way to Thanfai- giving. On Thanksgiving e^ning I met him at the railroad station, as he came from hia aged mother's, whose youngest son he was. For the first time since he was shpt in 1867, I walked with him in the streets Ia all that time we had entered no place of, amusement together, and had only once met accidentally at one evening party at the house of a mutual friend. It seemed as if, for the first time I had a right to talk froeiy^ and unreservedly to him, so carefully had our acquaintance with each other been pro? tected. On the day after Thanksgiving Mr. Bichacdr son went back to New York. Notiiing defi- nite was .planned about our future. W« could still afford to wait till events shaped themselves. Just a week after he left, a 4is> patch came that he was mortally hurt, and 1 came to New York to nurse him till ho died. When I came he asked me, if there should seem at any time to be no hope of hia recovery, if I would marry him at once, and I said I would. Otherwise we decided to wait till he recoveoed. I supposed he wished to be 'married that I, might have a firmer legal right to take the churge and rearing oC his three orphaned children ; and also because he could die more peacefully having made me his wife. As for myself, if I had had tea thousand lives, I should have been moro than glad to have given them up for biu^ who was dying for the crime of having loved me; and his lightest wish in the matter would liave weighed with me against al) other motives in the world. So, when it be- came plain that he must go away from aU tho hearts that yearned to hold hira here, we were married. This is the whole true story of all that he« happened to me. I said when I wrote it I should tell the whole. If it were guiltier J should have told it just the same. I think the same thing mi^t have happened to any man or woman who Uvea, without bringing to them either remorse or shame, and often without bringing any reproach. As to Mr. McFarland himself, I believe now, as I have believed for years, that he was a man born to do a murder. The fact that he was always uttering threats of blood- shed does not so much convuice me of thia as the fact of his temperament, which, partly from hereditary causes, partly from his oa- tionahtyy and partly from bad education, had become on^of unooutroUable violence. I THB BI0KABD90NI«RA.BLAND TBAGFEDT. 409 elieve he feared this himwlf. Often during or early married Hfe, w^an I toid him in is reasonable momipnts mat he would kill w in some of his fits -of passion, he ilsserted rith vehemence that he ** should never harm < hair of my head/' Toward the last of my k with him, however, he said several times, I answer to expressed fears, ** I shall never arm you, if I know you,'' which convinced le that he did not feel sure of himself. And believe simply and truly that if I had stayed ith him, sooner or later I should have been le victim of his blind fdry. I have written all without malice or hard »eting against him. Mr. McFarlund mar- led me a girl in years, a child in experience.' B every way he abased his claim in me, he arned my love to bitterness, he took all the iloom and sweetness from my life. When I rent away, and he found I had begun, per- Lips, to feel a hope of happiness, his wounded rinity and desire for revenge turned his litiirally mad temper into blackest madness.. 30 swore to my friends, by all the fiends, ihiit he "would rob rae'of my V^putation, ny children, all I held dear." He has done H), and I pity him from my soul. When the trial of his life cbmmenced 1 Mraise rated hhn deeply. I knew that leiirth, which seemed so intinitel3( sweet and Kacefal and blessed, when I turned from Cr. Richardson's death-bed, was to this un- lappy man the most terrible of horrOrs. hoped with all my heart that he would scape the barbarous penalty of a barbarous iw. And when I heard that Judge Davis *«• engaged iu the case I went to him and kid. *' Y^u understand fully that in this case have one interest. .The man on trial is on ial for his life, but I am no less on trial lan he, and for something infinitely dearer > any woman than life could be. The best lends I have are assailed with me, good eople who have befriended both the prisoner ad myself. If you can only let in a little ght of truth in all this cloud of abuse and •lumny I beg that you will do it For the ^8t I hope this man will not be convicted, ltd no one is more willing to believe him 38ane than I am." Judge Davis promised ^t all he could do to the end I asked him, ^ould be done. That if possible, Mr. Rich- fdson's memory, my own hoijor, and the ;Putation of my best friends, should be vin^ ^ated. What stumbling-blocks were placed ^ his way I will not try to disclose. It is ^u^h to say that at the last moment a ^ange was made in the summing-up con- "ftry to the expectation of every person >Hcerned. There is but one word more to say, and I ill say it briefly. It is well known that I ave been on trial before a New York Court I much as Daniel McFarland, and for a *ime more heinous and more bitterly pun- hed in woman than murder committed by man. And it is clearly seen by all who e dispassionately, that wherever a loop- hole was opened foir any truth about my ixm duct or Mr. Richardson's, it was immediately stopped. I have tasted to its dregs the cup of justice to which, in the nineteenth century, men born of women met^ out to one wl\ose. worst crime was the mistake of marrying ^ man who was half a madman from natural inheritance, half brute from natural proclivity. Of the justice I have received let those who read my story be witnesses. Cit^ and County of New York, as. : Abby S. Richardson, being duly sworn, de- poses and says that the above statement is true according to her knowledge and belief. ^, Abby Sack Richardson. Sworn to before me this 9th day of May, 1870. Wm. Barker, Notary Public, N. Y. Co. . CHABLE8 A. SICHABDSOV'S STATEXXITT. • Boston, A!ay 9. — So many misstatements have been made about my late brother, Al- bert D. Richardson's estate, that I deem it necessary, under the circumstances, to say that his entire estate is not worth, at thQ highest value, more than ft^3.000 to $25,000,^ and that his widow, Mrs. Abby. S. Bichard- •son, has refused any part of the property except that required to rear and educate his orphan children. The following is a copy of the memoranda which have been alluded to by the counsel for the defence a^ the will of my late brother (he died intestate), made at the Astor House before my sister-in law's arrival. Charles A. Rickardson, Administrator* Ar D. BICHABD80ir*8 MEHOEAKBirH OF A WXLL. [Dictated to Mr. Nioholson on the iriglft after he wai • shot.] 1. I owe D. Nicholson $200. 2. Mr. I'Anson will understand about my house. I have paid him $160 interest within the last few days. 3. I wjfnt my Tribune shares, if possible, kept for my child rcai. 4 Of my Kansas lands, the fhree Mafv shall County tracts stand in my name. Se does the tract near Topeko, now the Sha^v^ nee County tract, formiu^y cal'od Jackson County^ The Miami County tract stands an undivided three-fourths in my name, and an undivided one-fourth in Junius's. My Spring Bill lots stand an undivided one-half in my name, and the other undivided half in Junius's. Of all this Kansas property, Junius should have the proceeds of one, I think, of ike Marshall County quarter sec- tions. That wouM be a fair settlement be- tween U9. All the rest should be sold for the benefit of my -cliildren. The taxes on none of them have been paid for 1869* no THE BICHAD90N-H«FABLAND .TBAOEDY. 1 tTATSXEHT BT MB. ALBBBT D. BIOHAXD* \ SOM. LETTER TO MR. JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE. 'iFoRDRAM, N. T?., Sunday Night, Dec. 1, 1867. •* My Drar Juntus : On the last nine pages of my * Household Expense Book/ in my desk here, you will find' a clear statement of my l)U8ines8 affairs. . ** Should tlie madman who has once at^ tempted my life — and who just now shows some symptoms of renewing his attempt — succeed in killing me, as he has threatened 80 vehemently to scores of people, will you please set forth clearly a few of the facts for the sake of the lady they involve (vou know how hard, how self-sacrificing, and liow pure her life has been), and of my own children, whom I wish to have know all about them, that they may see, in maturer years, that my conduct in this matter has at least left them nothing to blush for. Some of these cardinal facts are : ** First : That Ae has inherited a taint of madness in his blood, his grandfather (ma- ternal) having died a maniac, and one of his brothers having been for years notorious for his absolute madness when under the influ- ence of liquor, and having so abused his wife at such times that she will carry the scars to her dying day. In his liquor fits his family have been obliged to keep him shut up like any other madman. ** Second : 'J*hat before Daniel McFarland had been married to his wife two years, he * had, in a fit of passion, struck her so violent- ly in the face that she carried the marks for days, and that annt what she had anc gone ; tliat he would not hear her g^ into tails which he knew so humiliating to him that she told Jiim in presence of these wit nesses it was her inflexible determinaiii never to live with him again ; that in tl same presence he acquiesced in the separt*] tion, and voluntarily said that he consenteij for the present that the custody of the chikj dren should be with her father. ** Seventh : ThaX in spite of all his ..iMi severations only a few weeks before thetlL did separate, he had himself propose] f that they should separate; that he wisbf^j to go ana talk the matter over with a gentli»j man whom both knew (Mr. G.), and the kepi him from going because he was in liquor. ** Eiqhth: 'I'hat she now has in her poss(i» sion a letter of his written to her six yean before I knew either party, in which, em his own • signature, and in his own hand, kl fully admits iiis violence to her. and corroto^ rates in general, every word of her ownstaiS^ ments aboift it. ■ *' (I have been thus minute, because he bH asserted so frequently that there had hM no trouble between them save the miNl, UiflTs,' as he phrases it, between hosbiai and wife; a^d that all assertions to the eett* trary are the result of a *plot or conspirtef, between her, two or three of her ladv frieno^ and myself, to take her from him and destrof his domestic peace I !') , *' Ninth : That after this final separatioi last February, after she had applied to her lawyer, Mr. Runkle, to take the necesserf steps for a divorce, she was so situated ttel I was thrown much with her, thai 1 knewlier character and worth thproughly. that mf sympathies for her suffering and helplesawtf in facing the world with two children to anp* j port, which ^lad existed all the while, di*' veloped into a warmer feeling — that 1 Uwt^ her — that it became an understood thioif between us that when she wa^egally free Aa should become my wife. Before the sepenh tion no such thought had ever enterea wn heart, and she had never uttered one weii to me which the most loyal wife might net speak to any gentleman whom she knew aad respected. ** Tenth : That some weeks aft«ji tl;e sepan» tion, he intercepted a letter from me to her, which showed him that when she should be legally free I hoped to marry her — a letter couched in-the terms usually employed by e man toward the lady who is to be his wife. ''Eleventh: That after getting this letter, early on a Monday morning, he kept it ; said nothing to any one about it ; did nut seek roe either in Hartford or New York, though be knew my places of business, and exactly how to find me, but concealed his purpose, and never approached me until at 11 o'clock of the dark, rainy Wednesday niglit. nearly three days after obtaining it, as we were goinf from the theater where she was employe! and where 1 had called to escort her to h« THE RICH ARDSON-McPARL AND TRAGEDY. Ill id's house, where she was Staying for a »nth, till her engagement should be over, she could return to her parents in Mas- ihusetts — he stole stealthily up behind me, 1, with his pistol within 14 inches of my ly, shot me in the back. That he fired more shots at rae in all, and while he trying to get off a fourth I grappled him, tw him to the pavement, and there held I pistol, powerless, until I had called the 'ice and delivered him into their custody. Twelfth : That I refrained from prosecut- him, because I did not wish needless ilic scandal about her, because I knew h^ half a madman, and because I also kneW it I had done* wrong to speak of marriage ith her so soon after her separation from Of course the fault was in no sense She was a helpless woman, so nervous Hth apprehension and terror of him that she wildly whenever she heard a door- ring, and she turned naturally to one offered her sympathy, shelter and a0Bc- at such time. 7 ought to have > been prudent but the fact was there, and I dUier sought to evade it nor deny it. . I iply told the truth about the matter. She Ined in New York, and took care of me ing the five days that my wound kept me bed, and then returiied to her parents. I -d on all sides threats of my life from bat only replied to them, that if he jjonght to murder me again I should de^nd toyself as well as I could, and that sooner or hkjter, if she and I both lived, I should surely her, if she acquiesced. And if f do eertainly shall, if he tries to kill me jry Aiy in the week. " Thirteenth: Finally, he has so far acqui- in tliis that last Summer Mr. John F. iveland came to me from him with the itinct proposition that if she would give up \T two young children to him he would in- pose no obstacle, either of time or &ct, to marriage. At last, however, after much jottaiion, a settlement of the custody of le cliildren was finally arrived at, without ying the matter to public trial in tlie isachusetts Supreme Court, where it was ending — by separating the children, she >ping the youngest (a boy of three), and taking the eldest, who is eight — with ich stipulations as will enable her to re- iver the custody of the eldest at any time, lould the father, either by neglect or ill- meatmen t, forfeit his paternal right. She ras moved to consent to this arrangement— 'hich almost broke her heart — partly be- liuse she thought the father with all his ill- 'eatment of her, loved the child, and partly because his friends insisted with great earn- estness that if he could not have the boy he would either die or go utterly and hopelessly mad. " So the matter stands. What new thing has set him again on the war-path I know not. You will renjieraber that on the first occasion apprehending violence from him I decided not to arm myself because 1 did not want the blood of any man, and particularly of this most wretched man, in my hands. I have tlie same feeling still — in degree. It would be too horrible for the poor children who are hers and bear his name — too horri- ble for her — too horrible for my children. So. if he attacks me again, I shall mean to run very great risk rather than do deadly harm to him. Indeed, I hardly know which would be the worst under any circum- stances — to kill him or have him kill me. I could have taken his life before with his own weapon, with the most perfect ease, but I have always been glad that I did not. "What the upshot will be Heaven only knows. You and I have faced death and seen the sweet sleep, the precious, perfect rest it brings, too often, to hold it m any special terror. It is harder to feel that one leaves behind those who lean upon and love him; Imt then the Divine Benignity cares fbr all its helpless little children. "My dear friend, so loyal, so steadfast, so patient with my faults through all these crowded years, may the best blessings of life be yours ! If I go before, I know there is no need of commending to your tenderest friendship the sweet and gentle soul whose love has blessed me, and whom unwittingly I have brought to bitter grief, instead of helping, as I had hoped, her hard and griev- ous life. The Father keep, and shield, and bless her ! My own darling chUdren, too — twice orphaned in their tender years — already know you as their friend, and I know what friendship means with you. Good-by till we meet agam. ▲. d. b.'' City and County of New York, ss. : Junius Henri Browne of the City of New York, being duly sworn, deposes and says that the above is a true copy of a letter left in his hands by Albert D. Richardson, on or about December 1, 1867, and which was first opened by said Browne sometime after Mr. Richardson's death. ' Junius Hrnri Browne. Sworn to before me this 9th day of Ma^i; 1870. Wm. Baukrr, Notary Public, N. Y. Co. r» THE END. 3 2044 024 468 6£ THE BORHOWER WILL BE CHARGEl ' AN OVERDUE FEE 1FTH1S BOOKIS NOT RtTtmNED TO THE LIBRARY ON OR BEFORE THE LAST DATE STAMPED BELOW. NON-RECEIPT OF OVERDUE NOTICES DOES NOT EXEMPT THE BORROWER FROM OVERDUE FEES. ' ■-'^i 1981 r; I h\m 1 1981 BOOK